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Terrify your Friends by Masking your Links with ShadyURL

March 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Tips N Tricks

ShadyURL is most of the time a URL shortening service. On other occasions, it somewhat lengthens other URLs, especially the already short ones, just to accomplish its true purpose. It masks your links and makes them look suspicious and frightening.

Use it like most URL shortening service. Paste the URL you want and ShadyURL will generate a suspicious looking link to send to your friends. It will look as if you’re sending them a link to a malicious website which is enough to frighten a soul who is web literate enough to understand it. It’s great for scaring your friends especially if they’re asking an important link from you. It will make them think twice before clicking the link that you sent them.

Aside from the shady URL masking, you can, of course, use the service to shorten URLs and get less shady looking ones. Simply tick the “shorten (somewhat less shady-looking)” box and you’ll be able to generate a more decent short links than ones that contain a malicious_cookie word on them.

The service clearly states that it is for entertainment purposes only and the user is solely responsible for the content behind the links generated using the site. You also need to be somewhat cautious before sending the generated shady links for some of them can be offensive. All I’m saying is read the generated links before sending them even if it’s just for fun.

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Shrink2One: Shrink Multiple Links

October 10th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Tips N Tricks

Shrink2One is a URL shrinking service where you can shrink multiple links into a single short one. The service is quite similar to FuseURL. The only difference is the way it lets the user view the fused and shrunken URLs. Check out FuseURL’s full review.

Shrink2One is great for jamming together several links that you want to share to your friends. You don’t have to shrink each one on TinyURL before you paste them on IM’s, forums and blogs. This is also great for sharing links on forums and blogs that allows only one link per comment or post. Most blogs only allow one link per comment, anything greater than that will send the comment to the spam list.

Using the service is easy. Just paste all the links on the form provided and click the “Shrink Now” button. Other cool features of the Shrink2One are the optional Title and Password. The title will give the recipient a general idea on what the content of the URLs are. The password, of course, is for privacy. Since the recently created links are featured on Shrink2One’s website, this will protect your links from being viewed by others if you wish to.

If ever you are in need of a service that converts multiple URLs/links into one, Shrink2One is a great place to start. It beats FuseURL with the privacy feature but I like the way FuseURL presents the fused links. Your choice.

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