Re: The Top 10 Best Technical Documentation Sites of 2010

[Mike Stockman <mstockman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Combs, Richard wrote:

> Good advice. But there's a solution for the shortened-link problem. Go to www.longurlplease.com/ and grab either the Firefox extension or the bookmarklet. The latter should work in most browsers. 
> 
> I learned about Long URL Please from a Maximum PC article, which describes 31 other bookmarklets that you might find useful and/or cool. Check it out: http://www.maximumpc.com/bookmarklets 

Thanks, Richard. That looks like a great extension to get around my original objection...

I still dislike shortened URLs. If a longer link is broken by an email program, it's a bug, and shorter URL services are just workarounds until either the sender's or recipient's email software is fixed. I have some sympathy for the "they're ugly" school of thought, but I'll take informative URLs over attractive ones with mystery destinations any day. But if this extension works out, I guess I don't have to care anymore.

Thanks,
Mike
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