{"id":386,"date":"2008-03-27T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/firefox-extension-tinyurl-creator\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T12:41:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:41:22","slug":"firefox-extension-tinyurl-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/firefox-extension-tinyurl-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Extension: TinyURL Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf you haven&#8217;t already got it installed I highly recommend the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/126\">TinyURL Creator<\/a> Firefox Extension. I&#8217;ve been using it more and more recently, simply browse to a page and right click, select &#8216;Create TinyURL for this Page&#8217; and it generates the url and places it on the clipboard ready for you to paste.\n<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know what a TinyURL is TinyUrl is a service that takes a long URL as input, and gives you a short URL to use in it&#8217;s place. For example the TinyURL for <strong>https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/<\/strong> is <strong>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/39sbbh<\/strong>. This comes in useful if you want to put a link into Twitter or in an SMS message where you have a limited number of characters to use. I&#8217;ve been using the service a lot, but it&#8217;s so much easier with the firefox extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t already got it installed I highly recommend the TinyURL Creator Firefox Extension. I&#8217;ve been using it more and more recently, simply browse to a page and right click, select &#8216;Create TinyURL for this Page&#8217; and it generates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/firefox-extension-tinyurl-creator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,24,28],"tags":[321,142,320],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-development","category-widgets","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-extensions","tag-tinyurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}