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Different way of shopping on Amazon.com
Browse and search Amazon.com online stores using intuitive and straightforward interface of this desktop application. You can easily find your favorite books, electronics or other items.
Have you ever gone to send the URL of a webpage to a colleague via email, only to find that the URL that you paste into the message is about 150 characters long? Sometimes the URL wraps to the next line in their email client, and when they click the link it’s broken. Sometimes the URL gets passed around until it loses it’s initial meaning; someone looks at it and thinks, “Where in hell is this going to take me?”
To resolve those problems there are several free online services that offer shorter URLs that link to the original. Most however, like tiny URL will generate short addresses but those addresses tend to have rather cryptic names.
The beauty of Notlong is that you can prepend your own name to the shortened address that it creates. Use it with your own hosted URL and it’s like having your own domain name, only with .notlong.com instead of simply .com. What’s more it’s permanent and free!
It took me all of five seconds to get mactipslog.notlong.com as a shortened URL for this site.
Notlong is also great for creating your own easily remembered name for a site that you just might like to access while you’re on the run.
At the Notlong site you can also grab a bookmarklet for your browser that enables you to simply click when you’re viewing a site with a long name — a window pops up with a field where you enter your preferred short name. If it’s available you are given the name, along with a secret address where you can manage the name, track the number of people who navigate via the shortened URL etc.
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For quickly looking up a figure of speech, an acronym, or just some phrase you hear a lot but don’t quite understand.
If you are using Sugudi inside Safari then you can use this code as a shortcut:
http://metaglossary.com/results/?query=@@@
Getbuzzword, a stunning looking online word processor, should be renamed GetBroadband. On my dial up network every time I click on an element another progress bar (should be a sun dial) pops up. I could have installed Microsoft Flight Simulator on a Celeron PC (including all of the world scenery) in the time it’s taking me to write “Hello World” into this thing.
Hopefully all of these progress bars are indicating something of the back end that is going to stay on my drive for a while. I can’t envisage going through this torture every time I visit the site.
A nobel prize should go to the inventor of multi-tasking…
…Oh, heck. Safari just crashed. Don’t get me wrong; what I did see of it was very pretty. It’s just another item to go on my When I get Broadband list.
I added two great bookmarklets to my Safari Bookmarks Bar today. The first is Convert Me (Don’t click this link yet! Read on…). If you’re looking at a video in a YouTube page, simply click on the bookmarklet to Zamzar’s site where you choose the file format you’d like and enter your email address. They then convert the file for you and email a link to the download. There are a few stand-alone applications that will do the same thing, but this is much less hassle.
The second bookmarklet is Mobilize Me which takes the complex, slow to load page that you happen to be viewing and sends it through Google’s conversion thingie and reloads it as a simple cellphone-friendly version.
Not familiar with bookmarklets? Simply make sure that Safari is showing the Bookmarks Bar, then drag the links above to the bar to make the buttons; each one uses javascript to look at the URL of the current page being viewed to work its magic.
Both of these bookmarklets were found here. I talk about some other useful buttons at my Some Great Web-Based Services page.
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Plug the address of your website into this and have a go. I certainly learned a thing or two.
“Website Grader is a free tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like webite traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.”
If, like me, you find that Google Mail takes forever to load when using Safari, you might like to try accessing it via the mobile interface.
It’s not pretty, but it sure is fast. Enter the following address into your address bar:
https://mail.google.com/mail/x/
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Evidently I have 571 days to go before plunking down on a touch.
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