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Best URL Shortener Services

What is a URL shortener A URL shortener is an online application that allows the user to enter a full URL for any specific web page, click on a button, and automatically shortens a long wordy URL to a short domain name and uses a 5 or 6 character code. When users are clicking on that short links they are redirected to the original URLs just as if they had entered or clicked on that. Where URL Shorteners are useful First, it’s very useful for micro bloggers, such as Twitter users, who like to share URLs in their posts. However, with a 140-character limit on sites like Twitter, it’s often difficult to include a lengthy URL along with an explanation of why you’re sharing it. Second, URL shorteners are useful because they can preserve a link to a specific web page even if the URL to that page changes in the future. Third, some URL shorteners allow you to track the number of clicks your shortened link gets allowing you to analyze the type of traffic you’re generating to yo

Download Your Facebook Albums Photos into ZIP Package

If you have uploaded and shared many occasional photos with all your friends by creating different albums according to their characteristics than you should backup your entire collection into one zip package so that if anything goes wrong you have already created a backup for your future support. Well there is a very great website which can do your work really easily called “facebook2zip” now as the name suggest it creates zip package for your entire Facebook albums database and given you the download link so that you can easily store them where ever you wanted too. So check steps below and backup your entire albums now. Follow below steps : 1. Visit http://facebook2zip.com and Login with your Facebook account like below. 2. Now after you have logged in just make sure to allow this website to access all your albums and then you will see a page where like below where you have choose for which person you want to download albums, you can choose yourself or enter any of yo

How to Expand or Unmask Short URL’s using URL X-ray

Many times on the internet sharing takes place in the form of generated URL and everything is just behind that URL, it can contain viruses, malwares or anything else maybe a phishing page and people usually share those URL’s masked through any good shortening url creating service’s like Bit.ly the most popular one and   TinyURL _ Goo.gl another awesome service from Google. Well there is an interesting web service which can do this job really in a nice and neat manner its called http://urlxray.com/ well this is an online service which simply grabs your short URL and expand it and show you the original stuff behind it. The best thing about this service is that they also provide a Bookmark which when installed you can unmask any URL or any webpage without visiting their original source website. So the way to do that is really easy just drag this bookmark to your bookmarks bar, and now when ever you visit any webpage that contains that short url just select that and th