November 12th, 2008

Quickest way to shrink a URL using Safari

If you like posting links on your social services’ status like Twitter for example, you might frequently use a URL shrinker service like tinyurl.com, is.gd, budurl.com etc. Copying, pasting your link and generating a short URL using the web service might not take up much of your time, but when time goes by, it all adds up.

Here’s a tip to to shrink a URL using Safari browser with just 2 keystrokes on your keyboard.

1) Login to your favourite URL shrinking site, I use budurl.com and I’ll use that as an example:

2) The url shrinking service will usually provide a link for you to add to your bookmarks so that you can shrink any URL quickly by clicking that link. Now drag this link to your Bookmarks Bar on the first position.

You might want to add a “+” behind to remind you that this is a direct shrinking link

3) Type “Cmd + 1″ on any page you want the URL to be shrunk from now onwards and voila! The URL is shrunk immediately with 2 key combinations!

Enjoy. :)



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