TinyUrl

Tinyurl.com is a handy website that transforms long and unwieldy html links into, well, tiny urls. For example, this long map link:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP

was shortened to http://tinyurl.com/6.

One problem with tiny urls is that they are blind links - you can't be sure where you are going when you click on one. Well, they've recenlty fixed that by adding a preview feature. Just add the word "preview" and a dot in the link as such: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6.

Or, if you have cookies enabled, you can go here to make "preview" your automatic default.