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Twitter to have its own URL shortner to fight phishing


Recently, many phishing scams have been spreading around in Twitter causing a trouble to a lot of users. These scams relies on one of the basic things behind Twitter – the use of URL shortening services as tweets are limited to 140 characters. By hiding behind these seemingly innocent shortened links, scammers have been passing…

 Hacks   News   Security   Twitter   Web  

By Ricky
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Shorten links at goo.gl without using the Google Toolbar [Works in Opera & Safari as well]


Shorten links at goo.gl without using the Google Toolbar [Works in Opera & Safari as well]

In this article we will tell you a short tip by which you can directly shorten your URLs with Goo.gl and without installing the Google Toolbar.

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By Debjit

Subscribe to password protected feeds in Google Reader using FreeMyFeed


Subscribe to password protected feeds in Google Reader using FreeMyFeed

In this article we will tell you about a method so as to how you can bypass the authentication procedure and subscribe to these feeds without entering any username or password.

 Articles   Tips & Tricks   Web  

By Debjit

How to set Single-click to select url in address bar in Linux versions of Firefox


You may have noticed that, the Firefox versions that ship for Linux, don`t have the ability to select the url in the address bar on single-click of a mouse, whereas this is set by default in Windows versions of Firefox. If, you feel this feature should be there in the linux version of firefox too,…

 Hacks   How-To   Linux   Pragmatism  

By Debjit
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Facebook to provide ‘usernames’ for your profiles


Facebook to provide ‘usernames’ for your profiles

Facebook will be providing it’s user with usernames, which means that links to your profile pages wont be having some ref-id numbers anymore. Instead it will be having your username in it, similiar to what we have on Last.fm and LinkedIn. To access one’s profile page one would now just have to type in www.facebook.com/<username>…

 Articles   Facebook   News   Web  

By Debjit

Earn money while you shorten your URLs


Earn money while you shorten your URLs

Adfly is an innovative service that has taken making money online, one step further. We tell you how.

 Articles   Pragmatism   Web  

By Debjit

Start a URL Shortening service and earn in millions


Start a URL Shortening service and earn in millions

A short URL link to a page  on the web is definitely easier to share with people rather than very long URLs. For eg., The URL to our Netbook Buying Guide is http://digitizor.com/2009/02/21/digitizors-netbook-buying-guide-10-things-to-consider-before-buy-one/ but the same article can also be accessed using the short URL – http://bit.ly/BlUO9 and this short URL is definitely easier to…

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By Debjit

How to view a web resource or a webpage using a shorter URL?


How to view a web resource or a webpage using a shorter URL?

The web-o-sphere has now become overcrowded with Webpages which are inturn accessible by their URL (uniform resource locator) address. Day by day as web trends are changing, we are seeing long URLs emerging as a new fashion. Now, say you write a blog article whose heading is of say 15 words, add it to your…

 How-To   Programming   Tips & Tricks   Web  

By Debjit

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