SANDILANDS OBSERVATORY

One of the problems on the internet today is URL's that get so long you cannot click the link in the email because it wraps onto another line. A simple solution is to go to the Tiny URL website and with one click, you can turn a long URL into a short one.

The URL for a sample webpage on Microsoft is
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/design.aspx, 67 characters long, but when I run it through Tiny URL it comes back as http://tinyurl.com/jl7us - only 24 characters long. Anyone clicking on this tiny URL will still be directed to the original URL.
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