Need to shorten and project a URL?

Tony Hirst was leading a group session and threw out a challenge to attendees. He wanted a bookmarklet that would let him splash a minified URL, of whatever web page he happened to be displaying at the time, in a BIG FONT in the centre of his presentation screen…because, he said,  it’s easier for people to try and follow along by typing in a TinyURL or is.gd URL than a really long, horrible and complicated one. We’ve all tried to read off a URL to people before. That works. NOT.

So Christopher Gutteridge came up with the hack. Tony talks more about it here.

Via Jane Hart,  SplashURL.net,a way to create a short version of a given URL and display it big, so people can easily copy it from a projector to their laptop during demos. (It can also display a QR code)

SplashURL.net | Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day | Jane Hart | 1 April 2009

Tagged as: freebies, tiny url, Tools