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Subject: [Leica] Tiny Url tool for Safari?
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Sun Feb 3 18:57:47 2008
References: <474280.49962.qm@web55912.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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        From:     leica@dmason.net
        Subject:        Re: [Leica] OT: A nifty TinyURL service for Mac OS X 
users
        Date:   April 10, 2007 6:30:56 PM MDT (CA)
        To:       lug@leica-users.org
        Reply-To:         lug@leica-users.org

There is also a firefox add-on that makes it easy to get a tinyurl -
will work on any OS firefox will.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/126


Dave


"Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> writes:


> Windows folks, just disregard. I have to think there's a Windows
> equivalent of the Service menu item but I don't know what it might be
> called.
>
> For you Mac OS X folks, you might be interested in this nifty little
> OS feature that uses the "Services" menu available from all OS X
> applications. Many folks don't use it but once you learn what can be
> done with it, and the applications that make services available, well
> there's no going back.
>
> This service will take highlighted text and replace it with a TinyURL
> link - without having to go to the TinyURL site, cut and paste, etc.
>
> Here's the full source if you're interested from Rachel Blackman's  
> web site:
>
> <http://www.riverdark.net/misc/TinyURL-src.zip>
>
> Here's the service itself. It comes as a zip file which you decompress
> into a folder. There are instructions. I had to do a restart to make
> the feature fully available:
>
> <http://www.riverdark.net/misc/TinyURL.zip>
>
> It's VERY spiffy and works wonderfully well for me.
>
> Adam
>
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