The web site tr.im was a URL shortening service. Most of you have probably used one of these before, such as bit.ly, sn.im, is.gd and of course TinyURL. Some examples of why people shorten long web addresses:Character limitation. Examples are Twitter, MySpace/Facebook status update, cell phone or any other environment that imposes an under-200 character limit....
If you like to make use of TinyURL‘s and Firefox is your browser of choice, then you need to take a look at the TinyURL Creator extension. The usage is pretty straight-forward. Your URL is taken as input and then passes this along to TinyURL to give you the same thing you would get from TinyURL’s site. While this plugin isn’t the biggest of...
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