Thurly
Introducing Thurly
Wednesday July 15, 2009 | Filed in: Thurly
With a quick keyboard shortcut (Command-Control-T) you Thurly springs to life automatically shortening the URL of the web page you are on.
From there you can copy the shortened URL out to use elsewhere. Paste it into emails, forums posts, blog entries and much more.
Thurly allows you to post to Twitter from the main interface. It populates the Status field, by default, with a shortened URL and let's you edit your post as you like. Click "Tweet" or press Command-Enter and your post lands in your Twitter updates.
Registering Thurly is not required. You can use the base features of the plug-in, shortening URLs and posting to Twitter, for free until the cows come home.
We have included some bells and whistles to make your life easier. Registering allows you to use multiple Twitter accounts, letting you post from different accounts on the fly from the main interface.
We have also built in the option to use a Twitter template. The template let's you set a default message that appears in your Twitter Status field each time your open Thurly. Which can also be overridden at any time.
Download your copy today, it's free!
Registration for a single user license is a mere $4.95 (about the price of a cup of coffee at Starbucks).
Shrinking your long URLs
Friday February 13, 2009 | Filed in: Side projects
I have recently begun to teach myself PHP through a wonderful course on Lynda.com in some of my ‘spare time.’
In the process I thought it would be a good idea to give myself a project to use as a testing ground for my new found, limited PHP knowledge. I set out to make a URL shortening service for myself. Rather than reinvent the wheel I used a little bit of open source code as a base and built up from there.
After a couple of days of work I ended up with Thurly. Hop on over and check it out. I’d love to get some feedback on it. I will probably tweak it over time and may even add more functionality. For not though it offers a web site for shortening URLs, a back-end API for applications and other sites, and a boomarklet to make shortening your URLs easy to do on the fly.
Feel free to use Thurly for your projects, Twitter, other social networking, whatever you like.
In the process I thought it would be a good idea to give myself a project to use as a testing ground for my new found, limited PHP knowledge. I set out to make a URL shortening service for myself. Rather than reinvent the wheel I used a little bit of open source code as a base and built up from there.
After a couple of days of work I ended up with Thurly. Hop on over and check it out. I’d love to get some feedback on it. I will probably tweak it over time and may even add more functionality. For not though it offers a web site for shortening URLs, a back-end API for applications and other sites, and a boomarklet to make shortening your URLs easy to do on the fly.
Feel free to use Thurly for your projects, Twitter, other social networking, whatever you like.