gmacln
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Great advice Steve and Don - thanks. I'll try it the next time I post a link.
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DugDog
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Loc: Temecula, Ca. USA
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Another way is to use http://tinyurl.com
Very easy to use, simply copy your long URL in, and receive a tiny url:
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2079310/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1
becomes this:
http://tinyurl.com/ynwmey
No sign up AND free to use.
DD
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DNTash
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Reged: 09/02/07
Posts: 774
Loc: India
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Excellent method -- I've been wondering about this for a while. Thanks!
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Hal Pollner
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 6567
Loc: Southern California Desert
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OK...what is a "URL" in street language? Can it be simplified by saying "Text"?
HAL
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Don W
Demi-God
Reged: 05/19/03
Posts: 15124
Loc: Wisconsin, USA
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URL means weblink.
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jrw11
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Posts: 528
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I think it is "Universal Rescoure Link"
HTTP is Hypertext transfer protocol 
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Hal Pollner
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Loc: Southern California Desert
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I asked for its translation in PLAIN LANGUAGE, please.
"Weblink"? "Universal Resource Locator"? "Thread"? "Post"? "Paste"? "Cut"? "Drag"?
Why can't you people use plain talk?
I know that an Alpha Particle is a Helium Nucleus, and a Beta Particle is an Electron, and that Plutonium is created when a Uranium 238 Nucleus is bombarded with and captures an extra Neutron, producing PU 239, and that Lithium Deuteride produces Tritium for H-Bomb fuel when heated to fusion temperatures, but your URL "code talk" leaves me gasping!
HAL the ELDER
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Don W
Demi-God
Reged: 05/19/03
Posts: 15124
Loc: Wisconsin, USA
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Hal, we are using plain language in today's vernacular. URL means internet link. You know, you click on it and it takes you to a web page.
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Don Wyman
Obsession 18" f/4.5 #1166
W/Argo Navis DSC and Torus Primary
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Hal Pollner
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 6567
Loc: Southern California Desert
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HEY DON:
Oh, you mean a "LINK".....I recently learned what that was.
Don...you ain't gonna believe this, but I've owned computers for 12 years, and I've had an on-line account for 10 years, but I swear that I STILL DON'T KNOW the difference between a "Browser", a "Server", a "Search Motor" and an "Internet Provider".
My knowledge is narrow in scope, but HIGHLY FOCUSED in my personal areas of interest.
Thank you, and may you enjoy Uncle Sam's 232nd Birthday!
HOWL
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jrw11
professor emeritus
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I looked in my Cisco book. URL is Uniform Resource Locator.
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Celestron C6n -HD Reflector
dual axis drive motors added
Orion 80mm Short tube refractor
Skyscout
Early 70's Pentax 7x50
Garrett Optical 12x60
Garrett Optical 15x70
Oberwerk 20x80 Standards
Canon Rebel Ti (film)
4 Minolta Srt cameras
Mamiya RB67 Pro-s with 180 lens
127mm KL lens for RB, Bellows hood for RB67
Mamiya M645 Pro
Cambo SCII 4x5 view camera
over 50 other film cameras
several eyepieces
too much stuff
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Kal
sage
Reged: 07/31/06
Posts: 203
Loc: Sydney, Australia
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Call me old fashion but I prefer using the simple UBBcode method.
Code:
So a link to [url=http://www.cloudynights.com]Cloudynights[/url] looks like this.
is:
So a link to Cloudynights looks like this
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Gandalf223
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Reged: 11/04/07
Posts: 372
Loc: Willamette Valley, Oregon
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I have to agree w/ Kal on this matter. In particular, I don't like TinyURL links, because there's no way of knowing where it's actually going to take me until after I'm committed.
Seems like no more effort to put a long URL into UBBcode, than to go to TinyURL and jump through their hoop...
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Keizer, Oregon
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Don W
Demi-God
Reged: 05/19/03
Posts: 15124
Loc: Wisconsin, USA
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We're just offering different methods, not running a contest to see which is best.
The moderators
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kiwisailor
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 01/07/04
Posts: 1230
Loc: Lyttelton, New Zealand
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Quote:
We're just offering different methods, not running a contest to see which is best.
Many paths lead to Rome, whichever you choose is fine- please just refrain from post a huge URL which screws up reading the page for the rest of us.
BTW, I too dislike Tiny, but if that's what works for you, cool.
Steve
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zulu
member
Reged: 11/28/06
Posts: 22
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I'm late posting I know but when one needs to use a url shorting site use http://lnk.nu/
It creates urls that GIVE you an idea where you going ie:
http://lnk.nu/cloudynights.com/10sk (a link I created that take you to this discussion)
By dragging the [lnk.nu] link in their tool section to your browser toolbar, you'll create a button that allows you to make a minilink to any page you're on.
Michael
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HTT
member
Reged: 10/16/08
Posts: 13
Loc: Missouri
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I use Clickodometer.com for shortening urls
It also has a click counter, and will even email you when you want to be alerted that someone clicked your link
Richard
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