Shorten your long URLs

jack44 — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:28:34 +0300

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).

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: http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/forum_nokia_champion/forum_nokia_champions/Jacek_Wojciechowski.html (99 characters), but it's much easier to enter and remember eg. http://snurl.com/jacekw (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.
Generally you can save much more time if you set a bookmark in your device's browser ;-)

Jacek Wojciechowski's Forum Nokia Blog

Shorten your long URLs