Sharing LONG website addresses or URLS

Have you ever needed to share a link with someone, only to find out that the link you need to share is a really really long one? Retyping it or even clipping and pasting it becomes a nightmare and does not always translate properly in some instant messengers. Well there is a stupidly simple solution to it. Point your web browser to http://tinyurl.com and there you will be able to enter a HUGE link to make it smaller...

I wanted to share an eBay item with someone, but surprisingly giving people just the eBay item number can be confusing, they end up saying where do I enter the number it? eBay has not quite made it clear that you just put the number in their search bar.

Example:

Tiny URL will take a long URL like;

http://cgi.ebay.ca/DVD-Multi-Drive-Burner_W0QQitemZ280312663161QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item280312663161&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318#ebayphotohostinge

And it creates one like;

http://tinyurl.com/cdp7cf

Much easier to share!

If you have useful geek tips like this, please email them to romrider@gmail.com and I will share them on this blog with credit and a link back to your website or email address!