Comments on: Broken Hyperlinks – Work-around

By: Rachel Blackman

Rachel Blackman — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:16:54 +0000

For whatever it’s worth, I whipped up a quick little Mac OS X system service that provides a ‘Shrink URL’ option in the services menu. It will take a highlighted URL in any editable OS X text field, and turn it into a TinyURL equivalent. I had the URL-shrinking engine for an upcoming feature in my MU* client, and repackaged it as a service specifically so I could use it with Mail.app.

It’s a 0.1 revision at best, and it doesn’t even have a webpage on my site of its own yet, but it seems to work. http://www.riverdark.net/misc/TinyURL.zip is the service, and questions or requests about it can go into the ‘Misc Tools’ area of http://www.riverdark.net/board/

I’m more than willing to toss the source out as well if anyone really wants it, as it wouldn’t be too terribly hard to write a Mail plugin that would TinyURL-ify any URL longer than a specific number of characters.

By: Alvy

Alvy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:21:42 +0000

Enclosing the long URL in angle brackets sometimes work for me. Also writing the URL on a single line, not leaving any spaces before it.

By: Dan Warne

Dan Warne — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:53:02 +0000

And if you use that bookmarklet, there’s even an ‘email URL’ option there that will create a new message in Mail with the URL in it.

Would be nice if someone would make a Mail plugin to automatically replace any URL of a certain length with a tinyurl…

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Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » 10.4.3 killed my tip — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:43:57 +0000

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