Today is a beautiful sunny day on the wet coast and just wanted to share 2 useful Google bookmark features that can help you when you are traversing the intertubes.
Both of these tips are bookmarks, the first one gives you the ability to create tiny URL's with the click of your bookmark and uses one of the fastest short URL services courtesy of Google with 100% up time and around 1/3 of a second to resolve and process the URL. All you need to do is drag the following link into your bookmark toolbar:
If you want to see how it works, you can click the link right now to make a tiny URL for this page.
Once this bookmarklet is in your toolbar, if you need to make a tiny URL, just go to the page you want to generate the link for, click the bookmark link and voila! a popup window will appear with your tiny URL and you can copy and paste it where ever it is needed.
The next bookmark tip gives the ability to google search a site you are on and only show results for that particular site. This is useful is the site doesn't have a search box or you want to find something specific on the site and not want to go to google and add "site: URL" in the search box. The bookmark is:
Once this is in your bookmark toolbar, just go to the site you want to search, click the bookmark and enter your search key words. It will take you to Google search results for that particular site only.
Hopefully you will find these two quick tips useful. Let me know if you have any tips you want to share that helps making your web surfing more enjoyable.
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