6 Best Url Shorteners

URL Shorteners make long URLs tiny, so they can fit into less space. Here are in our opinion 6 of the best URL shortening services online today. These are in no special order, and they are all 100% free.

tiny.cc

tiny.cc

tiny.cc

Tiny.cc site may be the original service, we are not sure. Site was first started back in 2006.

bit.ly

bit.ly

bit.ly

Bit.ly is twitter’s tiny url shortening service of choice. They may even own it, im not sure.

goo.gl

goo.gl

goo.gl

With a name like goo.gl this url shortening service has to belong to Google. The utility isn’t too fancy, but has a few features the others do not.

is.gd

is.gd

is.gd

is.gd claims to be the shortest of all of the url shortening services, as as far as I can tell they are right. A 4 character domain (including the extension)

ow.ly

ow.ly

ow.ly

Last but not least is the birdy shorty ow.ly. (just as short as is.gd mind you) This service actually allows you to share files as well! 🙂

URLInto.com

urlinto.com

urlinto.com


This service has a larger name than the others, but offers one thing none of them do. Revenue. This one shrinks your urls and allows you to create an adsese revenue page at the same time. This way you get paid to share.

Free WinRar Download

WinRar Box

WinRar Box

I’ve been using Winrar for about 10 years now and even though Windows now ships with a version of Winzip, WinRar is still my compression utility of choice. So we figured we would offer up a free winrar download, and see if we could port some users over from winzip.

Why winrar you ask? Well I think it loads faster, it creates .rar files as well as .zip. It offers up tons of options as far as compression range.

Allows you to split huge groups of files into dvd size files, cd size files. So in this case it makes many rar or zip files instead of one large one.

winrar options

winrar options

It offers about 7 different archiving options including

  1. Delete Files After Archiving
  2. Create SFX archive
  3. Create Solid Archive
  4. Put recovery record
  5. Test archived files
  6. Lock archive
  7. Put authenticity verification

It also has a nice update mode with another 7 or so features as well.

It allows you to include or exclude files based on date, and even add a comment to the file for other people to read in the future.

Download

Download

All this in a freeware application. Of course you get a screen when loading that says you are using WinRar unless you pay for the upgrade, but most apps show you that anyway, and If you just right click a file and archive or zip then you get no warning at all.

So download now and start using what we consider to be the best free compression application out there.

As always please tell us what you think.

Breaking Long Posts into Pages w/ WordPress

Breaking Long Posts into Pages

Breaking Long Posts into Pages

If you’ve ever seen an article online that seems to go on and on for ever, you can understand the need for the WordPress “<!–nextpage–>” Tag. It breaks long pages into multiple pages one the fly.

The command must be used under the “html editor” region of wordpress. If you don’t have wordpress, and just own a web page then you can obviously do this by hand. Just cut your page into 2 or more pieces and then link them together.

This nifty concept also means you get to serve more ads, and decrease your bounce rate. (the % of viewers that leave after just viewing one page).

Since adsense only allows you to display 3 ads per page, a long article on one page could only have 3 ads. That same article broken into 2 pages would yield ad space for 6 ads, broken into 3 pages 9 ads.

If you also serve up CPM ads, then this could be a boost to your cpm ad revenue as well.

So in summary webmasters using WordPress should use “<!–nextpage–>”
tag when wanting to split up long blog posts. This tag should be added in the html text editor region. If you ad it in the visual editor you’ll just end up with “<!–nextpage–>” being displayed on your page.

Keyword Groupie Best New Free Keyword Utility

Keyword Groupie

Keyword Groupie

Keyword Groupie may just be the best new Free Keyword Utility on the planet. It offers some of the coolest new keyword analytical features that revolve around keyword grouping, and better hierarchical organization.

Keyword groupie has a 70’s hippie style marketing ploy that makes the app seem all that much more fun, and of course the coolest part is that it’s free. (at least for now it is)

Keyword Groupie displays all words in a domains keyword universe, and then breaks them down into a nice hierarchical expanding tables. The closest relative is “Google Keyword Tool”, when using it to find domain keywords.

It’s a great way to see what you have, what your competitors have, and what you need. The organizational scheme then makes it all that much easier to get that result you want.

We are playing around with Keyword Groupie, and so far we have to say that we love it.

Check out the video from youtube

Best Open Source Database

MySQL Best of the Best

MySQL Best of the Best

So what’s the best open source database? Well I feel that it’s MySQL of course. There are various versions of free open source sql databases, but by far the most widely used has to be MySQL.

I’ve read all sorts of speed test against various query types, various database sizes, and different database activities; such as updating, creating tables, merging, exporting. The one that stands out is always MySQL.

It has become the become the most widely used open source database software not because of marketing, but because of ease of use and durability.

The software is very robust, and widely used. I run near a hundred websites, and it powers every one. It has never let me down.

The interface options (mainly the command line, and & phpmyadmin) are it’s limitations in my opinion however.

The only one i’ve found suitable is MySQLDumper. It’s chews up and spits out database tables with millions of records for breakfast. If you are interested in this addon or module check out our article. Large Database Software Help