URL shortening services are widely used on the desktop in microblogging clients. In this tutorial we will show you how to make a GTK+ textbox automatically shorten ...

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...

Seems like I just can’t enough of desktop URLs shorteners: Andy wrote an Applescript for that (hem) and I reviewed Shrinker, a simple app that handles the whole process of shortening urls with various ...

If URLs are too short, they're easily guessable using brute-force techniques, which can expose users' data and identities. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help ...

The rise of Twitter and other microblogging systems with constrained character counts has led to renewed interest in Web services that shorten URLs. Support for these services is often integrated into ...