Creating tiny urls easily!

I wanted a quick way of creating tiny urls for either posting on twitter or just to include in my emails. 

I somehow did not like the fancy toolbar buttons or java scripts or add ons. I like a clean browser.

So using my favourite Opera 9.64 this is how I achived my goal.

1. I jumped to the tinyurl website. Link

You can use this with any url shortening site. I just like tiny!

2. Then I right clicked on the the textbox (left of the Make TinyURL button) and clicked 'Create Search'

3. A search engine dialog popped up. In the keyword textbox, I entered 'tiny'. You can use any word even 't', but 'tiny' is easy to remember. Click OK

4. Now to create a tiny URL, I just copy that looong URL and type

tiny   and this immediately creates a short URL and directs to the tinyurl.com page.

Here address bar shortcut like Alt-D helps to select the current URL (if thats the long URL you wanted to shorten). Or sometimes, if I am already on the page that needs to be shortened, I use the following sequence:

1. Click Alt-D (highlight the address)

2. Click Home

3. type 'tiny ' (with space at end) and hit enter! Thats it.

Now thats the shortest and easiest way to create shortened URLs!

No plugins, no javascript!