http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/jacek-wojciechowskis-forum-nokia-blog <p>Thoughts on new mobile technologies and development areas.</p> <p>P.S.<br /> Use Nokia barcode reader to read the code ;-)</p> <p>Long URLs are difficult to remember and not easy to enter into your mobile device (especially if you don't have QWERTY keyboard like in Nokia E90/E70/E61(i) or external bluetooth keyboard). However, there are various online services that shorten long URLs (for example TinyURL or SnipURL). </p> <p><br />Let's check an example: it's not easy to enter without a mistake quite long URL to my Forum Nokia Introduction Page which is: <a href="http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/forum_nokia_champion/forum_nokia_champions/Jacek_Wojciechowski.html">http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/forum_nokia_champion/forum_nokia_champions/Jacek_Wojciechowski.html</a> (99 characters), but it's much easier to enter and remember eg. <a href="http://snurl.com/jacekw">http://snurl.com/jacekw</a> (23 characters). This way I can save 76 characters in my SMS/MMS message (it's ca. 77% of the original URL!). You can send short URLs in emails without the fear of them being wrapped and as a bonus if your underlying URL changes you can always modify your shortened URL. <br />Generally you can save much more time if you set a bookmark in your device's browser ;-)</p> <p>&#160;</p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/jacek-wojciechowskis-forum-nokia-blog/2007/05/08/shorten-your-long-urls Tue, 08 May 2007 18:28:34 +0300