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1120643 2010-07-20 05:35:00 How do you download a tinyurl? I enter tinyurl.com/..... and nothing opens except message check spelling etc. ticktock (2467)
1120644 2010-07-20 05:42:00 More info required. What are you trying to do? johcar (6283)
1120645 2010-07-20 07:15:00 How do you download a tinyurl? I enter tinyurl.com/..... and nothing opens except message check spelling etc.

its a website.......
http://tinyurl.com/

you enter any url and it shortens it

example
pcworld.co.nz
becomes
tinyurl.com
GameJunkie (72)
1120646 2010-07-20 07:21:00 Another http://is.gd/ Lawrence (2987)
1120647 2010-07-20 07:47:00 I avoid those where possible (especially at work), since you don't know what malicious/NSFW website you're being redirected to when you click on that link. somebody (208)
1120648 2010-07-20 07:55:00 also tinurl etc are sometimes considered spyware and some protection software will not let you go to it or any of their links. tweak'e (69)
1120649 2010-07-21 02:15:00 also tinurl etc are sometimes considered spyware and some protection software will not let you go to it or any of their links.
Thanks Johcar and others. All I want to do is to open a program, but am I right in thinking that you have to type in the full name for the first time? If so, it seems as if the tinyurl is not worth bothering with.
ticktock (2467)
1120650 2010-07-21 02:35:00 Thanks Johcar and others. All I want to do is to open a program, but am I right in thinking that you have to type in the full name for the first time? If so, it seems as if the tinyurl is not worth bothering with.

I think you need to explain exactly what it is you are trying to achieve?
bevy121 (117)
1120651 2010-07-21 02:50:00 When you go to http://tinyurl . com, you are given the opportunity to 'shorten' an existing URL .

So for instance if you type " . computerworld . co . nz/"" target="_blank">www . computerworld . co . nz into the box where it says "Enter a long URL to make tiny:" and then press the button "Make TinyURL!", you get " . com/yb4p9xy" . " target="_blank">tinyurl . com When that link is clicked on - or pasted into an address bar, the user is taken to " . computerworld . co . nz/" . " target="_blank">www . computerworld . co . nz

I don't understand how this relates to opening a program . . . .

Have you been provided a TinyURL address for a site that has a program you want to download, but you can't open the site?

If so, read the post from tweak'e - you can usually get around this by adding an exception into your firewall . So long as you are sure the site is legit .

As tweak'e points out, malware is often hidden behind TinyURLs, which is why firewall often block them
johcar (6283)
1120652 2010-07-21 04:38:00 This may be what you are looking for:

TinyUrl Creator 1.0.5 addon for Firefox

addons.mozilla.org
zqwerty (97)
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