lookleap.com
Welcome to LookLeap!
Use LookLeap to convert long, unwieldy web links into short, friendly links. Our short links are friendly because they show the long link's host name. That makes them easier to organize and eliminates surprises. Take a look:
Here is a Google Maps link that you might want to email to your friend. As you can see, its length is messy and could cause the link to break if you sent it by email:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=starbucks,+fairfield+ ca&ll=38.259864,-122.069318&spn=0.011108,0.009459&t =h&num=10&start=0&hl=en
So, turn it into a friendly LookLeap link like this one:
Before she even clicks on it, your friend has an idea where it goes. And when she does click, it will work because its compact size fits nicely in an email.
Using LookLeap
It's easy to create short LookLeap links of your own:
  1. Add our LookLeap bookmarklet to your browser Favorites or Bookmarks.
    Explorer and Firefox users: right-click (Mac users: Control-click) this star: LookLeap - convert long web links into short, friendly links, and then select Add to Favorites... (IE) or Bookmark This Link... (Firefox). File this bookmarklet where you can easily find it.
    Firefox and Safari users: drag-and-drop this star: LookLeap - convert long web links into short, friendly links up to your Bookmark Bar which lives under your browser's address bar. Safari users can open/close the Bookmark Bar using Command-B.
    Screenshot showing drag-and-drop action onto bookmark bar.
    Some browsers let you drag our bookmarklet
    onto your Bookmark Bar.
  2. Whenever you are viewing a page you would like to email to a friend, click your LookLeap bookmarklet. A LookLeap.com page will open that looks like this one:
    Click [email] to send a pre-filled email, or click [tiny url] and copy/paste the given link.
Or, enter a long URL here and click Submit URL:
 
Then click [email] to send a pre-filled email, or click [tiny url] and copy/paste the given link.
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Have Fun!
Thanks for using LookLeap. Please contact me with questions or suggestions: ssteward@accesspdf.com
Cheers–
Sid Steward
Author: PDF Hacks
Free Software Maintainer: Pdftk, the PDF Toolkit
Contributor: MacTech