<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8a652ac-0484-49fe-b91a-0bf499fed3d2/D9F18A80-3196-4A89-8748-7DE067011E35/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://torley.com/is-snipr-better-than-tinyurl-for-making-long-urls-short" href="http://torley.com/is-snipr-better-than-tinyurl-for-making-long-urls-short" style="font-size: 11px;">torley.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://torley.com/is-snipr-better-than-tinyurl-for-making-long-urls-short"><P>I've been using <A href="http://tinyurl.com">TinyURL</A> for awhile, and <STRONG>it's a good companion to <A rel="external" title="direct teleport links to locations in Second Life" class="alinks_links" href="http://slurl.com/">SLURL</A>, since <A rel="external" title="An online society within a 3D world, where Residents can explore, build, socialize, and participate in their own economy." class="alinks_links" href="http://secondlife.com/ss/?u=f5d3c0ac08f529b0420bda9ba69e89c5">Second Life</A> URLs can get <EM>so very loooong</EM></STRONG>. I tend to run my SLURLs through a Firefox toolbar tool so the newly-tiny URLs can be copied-and-pasted for brevity — this is <STRONG>especially important for emails, where line breaks mangle lengthy addresses</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://torley.com/is-snipr-better-than-tinyurl-for-making-long-urls-short"><P>Recently, I found out about <A href="http://snipr.com"><STRONG>Snipr</STRONG></A> (also known through several other names like the slightly longer "Snipurl"), and appreciate that I can create a custom, memorable nickname instead of relying on a cryptic jumble of letters & numbers, no matter how short. (Looks like they've been around since 2000, so I'm surprised I didn't hear of them earlier.)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D9F18A80-3196-4A89-8748-7DE067011E35/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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