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Tips, Tricks, and Cool things you can do with your Peek: Shortened URL’s

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    • CommentAuthorndean
    • CommentTimeSep 29th 2009
     
    Twitter fans presumably know this already, but it was new to me.

    If you ask ENT to collect and send a web page using a tinyurl or equivalent shortened URL, it will faithfully retrieve it.

    For example, sending an email to ENT with the subject line

    WWW http://tinyurl.com/ygx2mqt
    (the latter, a tinyurl that I obtained at a computer)

    gets you a collection of article summaries from the New York Times on the US Geological Survey. The above URL it obviously easier to get into the subject line than the full URL, which is:

    http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_states_geological_survey/index.html?offset=90&s=newest

    Now to convince various services that supply brief summaries with full URLs to supply them with shortened URLs
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      CommentAuthoratvk55
    • CommentTimeSep 29th 2009
     
    that is totally amazing.
    saves you from going to the emergency with peekthumb injury

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