You’ve probably seen these – an email with a long, multi-line web address (URL) that doesn’t work anymore. Half the address is underlined to show that it’s a link, the other half isn’t. So now you have to laboriously copy and paste the two halves together again to produce a working web address. Or ask that the email be re-sent.
But we can do better. The next time you need to send someone an email with a very long URL, like this…
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=humanities+university+of+chicago&btnG=Search
…don’t just paste this into your email.
Instead, first copy the URL, then goto this site, TinyURL (http://tinyurl.com) and paste the long URL into the form at the top of the page. TinyURL will convert your long URL into a permanent, short URL that you can then easily copy into an email message. For example, TinyURL will take the long Google URL shown above and turn it into: http://tinyurl.com/3cpvol
