Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. There ...

TinyURL is an online URL shortener service. It takes a long link that may be many dozens of characters in length, and it turns it into a relatively tiny link. The shorter link is easier to handle, but ...

In a world where everything is being jammed into 140 characters or less, shorter is better. That goes double (or is it half?) for lengthy URLs. So-called URL shortening services are increasingly ...

Many of you have no doubt noticed URLs that look like this: https://tinyurl.com/8fnjr If you click on this particular URL, you will end up at my opinion page, which ...

Like using TinyURL a lot? Check out this Firefox extension that automatically creates a TinyURL for whichever site you're on and copies it to your clipboard. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...

Sending URLs—to funny sites, entertaining videos, or important information—via email has become almost a national pastime; who hasn’t sent someone to a Web site? This simple task has dramatically ...

The Register today ran a story about the phishing attack spread by the Google Talk instant messaging system, which uses TinyURL to conceal the real name of the link. John Leyden's story (quoting ...

Microsoft employs a server-side SPIM filter on its Messenger network for blocking malicious URLs in order to keep its users safe from the spread of malware. The system doesn't always work, however.

Tim draws attention to this because using TinyURL is one of the workarounds for dealing Mail.app's unfortunate tendency to break links in emails sent from it. Instead of dragging the URL from your ...