Web Page : Trimming a URL

 You need to tell someone over the phone
about a web page with a very long URL and
it’s not possible for you to mail the link to
him. What do you do?

You can go to www.tinyurl.com,
enter a long URL into the box and hit on
the button that says “make a tinyURL!” And
you have a tiny URL that never expires. For
example, you want to tell someone about
this URL: http://www.chip-india.com/
townsquare/viewtopic.php?t=5391, which
opens the page for the prize winners of the
this is what you will get: http://tinyurl.
com/9nzna. This URL opens the same page
and can very easily be read out to someone
over the phone.
‘Monster PC’ contest. You just have to copy
and paste the URL in the box and hit the
button that says “make a tiny URL!”