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tinyurl addiction!

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by 1bn0

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I was wondering if any of you were seeking treatment. I do see the merit of using it to shorten an already incomprehensible url. But I do find it annoying ot follow a discussion where it seems its only purpose it to indulge your habit.

From a recent post. (you know who you are)
*http://actualURLlink
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Here is a short list of the better ones

http://tinyurl.com/273ay5

*http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Data-Recovery-Software.html

http://tinyurl.com/rmvrv

*http://www.getdata.com/ Get Data Recovery Software

http://tinyurl.com/yvrsl

*http://www.grc.com/default.htm SPINRITE

http://tinyurl.com/yyk8cm

*http://www.handyrecovery.com/download.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/382vm

*http://www.partition-recovery.com/ Active@partitionrecovery

http://tinyurl.com/ynwnel

*http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/datarecovery.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/nc4kx

*http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/

http://tinyurl.com/2wox7l

*http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-downloads/

http://tinyurl.com/374d8b

*http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

http://tinyurl.com/djw6u

*http://www.stellarinfo.com/

http://tinyurl.com/f73se

*http://www.restorer2000.com/

http://tinyurl.com/8bd3f

*http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/index-m.html

http://tinyurl.com/afu2j
*http://www.x-ways.net/davory/index-m.html

None of these actual links are particularly onerus. While I admit some of them impart no additional information, there are some that refer to easily recognisable product names. For some of us (ME) that would make it unecessary for ne to follow the link just to identify a product I am larady familiar with.

(Yes, I am making an effort to overcome my own typing dislexia)

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by oh smeg

And it was from a time when TR broke URLs and if you posted the full thing you couldn't get through.

So it was either use the Tiny URLs or have to type in every time to remove any spaces from the Resulting URL which wasn't always an easy thing to do particularly for new comers.

If you read the rest of the post if it was mine at least it goes on to say that this is by no means a complete list of everything that is available only a cross section of the available products.

Where there any Broken Links included in the post?

For fairly obvious reasons I do not go out and reenter all of these Links every time that someone asks a question on Data Recovery I use a previous posting to get the raw data from to save time. :p

Original post is here.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=253343&messageID=2427058

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by 1bn0

The "broken links" basically answers my question. I did wonder if there were other reasons beyond shortening unreadably long URL's.

I try to keep up with the discussions going on, but work keeps getting in the way. Sometimes I just don't have time to check out all of the links to see if I have anything usefull to cintibute that may not be already covered.

I have no issue with copying previous post content. Although I tend to just copy the link instead, usually to my own posts..

I did ask , when they were looking for suggestions for the site, about including "Tutorial" page, where the answers to frequently asked questions could be posted and indexed.

The recent multiple posts regarding "taking ownership" of files is an example of such an answer.

by charliespencer

I found that I didn't like clicking a 'blind' link, and concluded if I didn't like it then I wasn't going to expect others to do it either.

by bizzo

I've been caught a few times with links here to sites that are blocked at work, so I always use the preview feature of tinyurl.

by oz_media

At one time, no matter what you did, links always got broken and had spaces inserted in them when posted. Some people know how to recreate a link and remove %20 etc as needed, but others found it simply made useless links.

TINYURL became popular, I think Maxwell Edison was one of the first aorund here to start using them. Now all links worked again, no more broken links!

I think TINY URL is being used more and mroe by spammers to 'fool' people into visiting their crappy websites, they are the bottom feeders of the pond and will find anyway at all to fool someone else each day, its that scumbag way of life. If you cannot sell and promote a product properly, you may as well try and trick people into looking at it.

by dirtylaundry

and prevents me from visitng any tinyurls - haha and yay...

my linux box can check them out tho w/o damaging my main box ;)

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