Archive for December, 2008

99 URL Shortening Services to Make Shortcut Website Addresses

Dec 28th

Posted by Kenny in How To

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TinyURL.com was the the forever favorite for URL shortening services out there largely because of first mover advantage.

I heard an podcast interview with the creator of TinyURL recently, and surprisingly he doesn’t have any business plan in place other than the Google Adwords text ads placed on the URL creation page.

But this past week, I went looking for other options for easier to remember URL shortcuts. And perhaps even shorter than the 7 characters in “tinyurl”.

Here’s 99+ services out there that give you shorter urls that you can use to forward to friends, post in blog or forum posts, and increase the odds that an URL you reference via email won’t “break” when it’s read by the recipient: Read the rest of this entry »

52 Free DVD Video Rentals Of Your Choice in 2009

Dec 24th

Posted by Kenny in Deals & Steals

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You have already seen them — since there are about 12,000 of them out there.

If not, once you start to look for them you’ll spot them all over the place.  And every one of them is waiting to hand out a DVD movie of your choice to you for a free night’s rental.

You can go back over and over again for another free DVD movie week after week, all year long.

free-movie-rentals-are-easy-and-localIt’s the latest way that I get movies every week — in fact, there aren’t that many good movies worth watching, so this tip will get you more than enough video content than you would ever really watch in a given year.

What on earth am I talking about?  Read the rest of this entry »