Do you ever have a really long Internet Address (URL) to pass on to someone? Reading out a long address over the phone is obviously difficult, and even when emailing a long URL, their email programme can often split in onto several lines and they have to try and piece it back together.
a good solution is to use
http://tinyurl.com/Copy the address, paste it into a box on that website and it gives you a nice URL which will redirect someone to that website. The shortcut URL is kept forever and it's totally free!
As an example, if I wanted to show you an aerial photo of my allotment on a map, I would have to quote:
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&x=472500&y=171500&scale=5000&width=500&height=310&multimap.x=162&multimap.y=24(it's the rectangle, just left of centre, with the dark area of trees to the right!)
If I put this URL in tinyurl, it gives me:
http://tinyurl.com/yuxb2which is a bit easier!
Anyone care to post their aerial photos? Just go to
http://www.multimap.com ,enter street name or postcode and click on View Aerial Photo when it shows you the streetmap.
