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Hollywood's URL: Fake Movie Dot-Coms
Facebook getting a feature film about its origins got me thinking about how the Internet has been portrayed on film — particularly the dot-com business side and the fake websites that movies have to create to further their plot. Check out a few of my favorite fake URLs from the big screen!
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Use Social Whale to Quickly Shorten URLs
The uber helpful Tinyurl is great for sending shortened links to friends and posting on Twitter, but it sure does take a lot of steps to complete the task. First you have to copy the link, go to Tinyurl, paste, make your link tiny, then go back over to your Twitter page (or email draft, IM, whatever) and paste the shortened link. Sounds like a lot of steps, right?
6 Useful URL Shorteners
With Twitter capping our tweets at 140 characters, many of us have had to find creative ways to make sure we can say what we want to say, without going over the character limit. Want to include a long link in your tweet? Forget about it.
Geek Tip: Quickly Adding The .com in Firefox
Here's a helpful shortcut tip from tips4mac for all you
Firefox users. The next time you go to type in a URL in the address bar, stop typing before the ".com" part and hit "command-enter." This shortcut key sequence will instantly insert the ".com" part and direct you to a particular site.
Geek Tip: Quickly Emailing A URL Link
If you're looking for a quick and easy way to email co-workers, friends, or family members cool links from your MacBook, give this geek tip a whirl.
Press command-shift-I, which will open your email and automatically insert the URL from the website you were visiting into the body of your email. Just type in the recipient's name, give it a subject and click send, and in seconds your website will be shared with others.
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Geek Tip: Fix Misspelled URLs With URL Fixer
I love typing in www.google.con or yelp.lom to be told that the address cannot be found. I freak out, tell Firefox it's an idiot, and then head to downforeveryoneorjustme.con, at which point I develop an ulcer until I realize that it was just my butterfingers making me enter typos into the address bar.
URL Fixer is like my Zen-master — it keeps me calm by fixing my misspelled urls.
Not Happy With Your FB Name? You Can Now Change It!
Now that the Facebook name grab has quieted down and millions of users have secured their favorite vanity name, Facebook is giving everyone a second chance. If your new username URL is a tad racy for your business cards, or you don't want your entire full name exposed on Facebook, just go into Account Settings and then click "change" under Username. Keep in mind that this is your one chance, one opportunity because Facebook will only let you change it once (for now, anyways), so make sure you are 100 percent certain it's the name you want.
Geek Tip: Another iPhone Typing Shortcut
I'm starting to think Apple might be reading my mind — every time I find something I don't like about my iPhone, I realize they've already thought of a solution. Similar to learning how to quickly scroll to the top of the screen on my iPhone, I wish I would have known about this quick shortcut months ago.
If you're typing a URL into Safari on your phone, there's a convenient ".com" button on the keyboard — great when the suffix to the site you're trying to visit is .com.
Facebook Begins Use of Usernames: Why I'm Worried
Hey, good news! Facebook now lets you use usernames in the URL for your Facebook page, rather than the series of crazy numbers to distinguish your personal URL. Why am I a little unenthused?
Should Celebrities Be Given Seniority to Online Usernames?
One word of advice, don't register any Jennifer Lopez URLs in the near future. The entertainer and mother of two just won her cybersquatting (must add this one to the geek dictionary) case against a man who registered jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org to send users to a pay-per-click ad site.
And speaking of celebrities and names, Twitter is now taking celebrity usernames and giving them back to the real celebrity.
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