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This web site provides a simple service - when you find a page on the web whose address is too long to paste into an email, SMS or other document, you can use my free service to generate a shorter, simpler address.
You can pass that shorter URL on to your friends by email, confident that most email clients will recognise it as a URL and turn it into something clickable.
To make a short link from a long one, just copy the long URL into the text entry box on my home page and submit the form. You'll be taken to a new page with your new, shorter link displayed and ready for you to click on, or copy so that you can paste it elsewhere.
If you've been given a URL which looks like http://devnull.at/?A53XU, just click on it, or type it into your browser's address bar, to be taken to the destination page.
Notice: A ShoterLink key is NOT case-sensitive.
If you'd rather use ShorterLink as a browser-based bookmarklet, I have one available on my options page.
Yes, if you don't want to see the transition page which shows you the full URL when you follow a short link, you can now select to be sent straight through to the full URL. Go to the options page to set your preference (this feature requires cookies to be enabled in your browser for this site).
For as long as possible. Put it this way: as long as I am in charge of the database, the links will continue to work. If the time comes when I run out of money or interest in maintaining it, I shall make the database available to anyone who wants to take it on. I hesitate to say "forever", because that's a very long time indeed. But the links will remain usable for a long time.
The idea and part of the layout came from a friend! The code was entirely written by myself, and may be released to the public once it's been tidied up a bit ;-)
I can't be held responsible for anything weird or illegal that happens to you or your computer while you are using this site.
Please get in contact with me at this address: shorter-link@devnull.at