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Shorten long URL’s with ceSnipURL

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

kosertech is a developer who created a free, handy app called ceSnipURL for Windows Mobile devices.  It allows you to shorten a long URL using the Snipr service (similar to TinyURL).  This can be particularly handy when sending a URL to someone in a text message, since there’s character limitations.

I’m pleased to announce the 1.0 release of ceSnipURL.  I created this little utility to allow me to shorten URL’s to make them more friendly for use in Twitter and SMS messages or mobile email, preventing links from wrapping in email helps them maintain their clickability when sending them.  Using them in SMS saves you precious characters and allows more text space to describe the URL your sending.  You could use URL shortening services via the web but the clipboard interaction is more cumbersome than using a small utility.

Features:

  • Auto places URL’s from clipboard into conversion window on application launch
  • After conversion, the snipped URL is placed on the clipboard for use in your sms/email or application of choice
  • Very simple one screen application
  • Built-in checking for update via the About screen

As always, its 100% free no strings attached.  Hit the download page to get the latest 1.0 release.