Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. There ...

TinyURL is an online URL shortener service. It takes a long link that may be many dozens of characters in length, and it turns it into a relatively tiny link. The shorter link is easier to handle, but ...

We've all been frustrated by long Web addresses, like the one that will get you a recent column of mine: https://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/davesdownload/archive ...

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Like using TinyURL a lot? Check out this Firefox extension that automatically creates a TinyURL for whichever site you're on and copies it to your clipboard. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...

Sending URLs—to funny sites, entertaining videos, or important information—via email has become almost a national pastime; who hasn’t sent someone to a Web site? This simple task has dramatically ...

Sharing links on Twitter can be quite a pain when you need to input a web address that consumes most of the space you have at your disposal for your micro-message. The startup realized that quickly ...

Lengthy links are annoying–especially if you’re trying to sharesomething within the strict 140-character constraints of Twitter.The TinyURL Generator Firefox add-on makes creating short links abreeze.

The Register today ran a story about the phishing attack spread by the Google Talk instant messaging system, which uses TinyURL to conceal the real name of the link. John Leyden's story (quoting ...

Microsoft employs a server-side SPIM filter on its Messenger network for blocking malicious URLs in order to keep its users safe from the spread of malware. The system doesn't always work, however.