Long URL Please: Reveal Short URL To Prevent Malicious Redirection

Shorted URLs are a favorite among Twitter and micro-blogging users. But these shortened URLs have a high level of uncertainty and you will never know where they might redirect you to, such as a malicious or unintended website. That is where Long URL Please comes in really useful.

Basically Long URL Please comes in 2 flavors and forms. The first type is an easy-to install Firefox extension that will show you the original URL of shortened URLs once the extension is installed. And there is the easy way of revealing the longer original URLs with one simple click, through a javascript bookmark.

Copy the javascript below and add it as a bookmark. Then if you want to see the original URL, just click on the bookmark and the original URL will be show in the URL status bar. If you know any more tips and tricks, please drop a comment and let me know!!

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{var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.
src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')
[0].appendChild(s);}var%20l=document.createElement
('script');l.src='http://www.longurlplease.com/js/jquery.longurlplease.js';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(l);function%20runIfReady()
{try{if($.longurlplease){%20clearInterval(interval);%20$.longurlplea
se();}}catch(e){alert('error')}}
;%20var%20interval%20=%20window.setInterval(runIfReady,100);}())


	

3 Online Free Online Instant Messaging Sites To Try Out

If you do not want to waste your disk space on bulky desktop instant messaging applications, such as Microsoft Messenger or Yahoo Messenger, then you really should try out online instant messaging. And best of all most of these sites are mobile and can be used on your computer browser, you mobile phone as well as your iPod Touch/iPhone.

Here are the 3 free online instant messaging sites that I found, all of which can sign in too many type of messaging services such as MSN and Yahoo.

eBuddy: Best online instant site that I found. Easy to login and chat to other users and the interface is quite good too. The mobile version is very compact and looks great. Go ahead and give eBuddy a try!!

Meebo: Another awesome instant messaging site. Quite similar to eBuddy but the interface is not so good and is quite buggy. No need to sign up to access the messenger like eBuddy.

Nimbuzz: Also another site worth checking out. Though you need to sign up to use it, it offers Skype service so you can chat to your friend and is quite mobile too. Thanks to sreelakshmi24 for the tip!!

Know any other online instant messaging sites or have any tips to share? Comment and let me know or please subscribe to my blog!!

Mashable Invites: Get Your Free Exclusive Invites Here

If you want to get private beta invites to the newest sites and stuffs, then you shoould not look any further than Mashable Invites. Here is an easy step-by-step guide on how to start getting some awesome and exclusive invites to the private beta sites.

1. Firstly,go to Mashable Invites, sign up for an account there and then login.
2. Then choose a site you like, click on its link and if there is an invite available, click “Request Invite” and repeat this step until you requested for invites for all the sites that you like.
3. Be patient and if there is an invite available, you will get your invites real soon.

Mashable Invites has many site invites (close to 50 pages) and is updated frequently, so it is the best place to get invites. What is the best sites up for invites now?? Please comment and let me know so I can get that invite too!!

Google Quick Search: Quicksilver-Like Google Search For Mac

Google has just released Google Quick Search, which has an interface similar to Quicksilver on the Mac. The app comes with lots of functions such as the basic Google Search and desktop search as well as Image Search and Wikipedia. Best of all it generates the results as you type so you will find it to be a easy and awesome desktop search app.

Just check out all its features at its Get Started page Just a note that it is for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5  users only so that is a bit disappointing for Tiger 10.4 users. Know any tips or tricks relating to the Google Quick Search? Please comment and let me know!!

[via Lifehacker]

The 1 Most Awesome Tip For WordPress.com Bloggers

Here is one super awesome tip for all WordPress.com bloggers that I discovered a while back, about social bookmarking!! I hope this will be the best tip ever for WordPress.com bloggers and here is what you have to do. Usually, when you want to place social buttons on your blog, you have to do search and replace in the url or fill in details in a form. But here is the easy way out to doing this.

1. Go to your WordPress admin and then Settings > Reading and under the enhanced feed, tick the social services you want and save it.
2. Now subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed in a RSS reader. The link of my feed is http://allthatsnew.wordpress.com/feed so you just have to add feed to the end of your blog’s url to get the blog RSS feed.
3. Then, make a post and publish it. And go to your RSS reader, scroll to the bottom of the post you just published.
4. Voila!! Copy the link of the social bookmarks you want and paste it on your post!! The link is generated by WordPress.com and will redirect to the social bookmarking site to be bookmarked.

You can click on the links to digg or reddit this article. Comment and let me know if you find this tip really helpful or know any more killer tips!!