How To Create Your Own Tinyurl Style URL Shortener
A URL shortener is a service that takes in a long URL and gives you a short and memorable URL that you can distribute to anyone you want. The service takes care of redirecting users who land up at the shortened URL to the original URL.
TinyURL, of course, was one of the pioneers in the field but ever since Micro blogging sites like Twitter started to take off, a number of services have come up that all provide essentially the same URL shortening service.
One major problem with using a third-party URL shortening service is that all your links are always bound to that one service and if they ever go out of business, like tr.im did, all your data is gone too. And that is why, if you’re serious about saving all the wonderful links that you’ve discovered from around the web, you might want to consider running your own URL shortening service.
YOURLS gives you exactly that.
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How to Add Custom Search Engines to Google Chrome
There are often times when we need to perform searches on a specific site other than Google. In Firefox, you can easily add custom search engine with to Add to Search bar extension. In Google Chrome, there are no such extensions at the moment, so we have to add our favorite search engines manually. Luckily this is not a difficult task. Read on to find out how to add custom search engine to your Google Chrome.
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How to Set Your Own Default Gravatar in WordPress
What if you can add your own custom gravatar and make it show up in the comments, won’t that be a good way to beautify your blog as well as brand yourself?
Luckily, in WordPress, this can be easily done. You might need to dabble into some coding, but I assure you that it is just a matter of copy/paste the code into the correct files and some minor editing. Follow along and we will guide you through.
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