{"id":2143,"date":"2010-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2143"},"modified":"2010-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"glo-li-url-shortner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/glo-li-url-shortner\/","title":{"rendered":"Glo.li Url shortner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Consolerium games guru Charile Love<\/a> has come up with a pile of interesting stuff linked to his work and glow. A while back he published a guide to Creating Your Custom Glow Theme<\/a> which has been very useful for me. Recently he has produce a url shortner for glow Glo.li<\/a> with a web interface, glow webpart: Making Glow Better with glo.li<\/a> and wordpress pluging and the Internet Explorer and Firefox Toolbar Alphas (with integrated Glow Search)<\/a> now in beta<\/a> all very much worth checking out if you use glow.<\/p>\n

URL shortners are not necessarly a good thing<\/a> I don’t think they have much place on blog posts or web pages. There a a couple of places they are handy, twitter with its 140 char limitation and printed material. Newspapers often use them and I’ve found thenm useful for printend notes. I also imagine they are worth using with children in glow. A typical glow url, say:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/portal.glowscotland.org.uk\/establishments\/nationalsite\/International%20Children\u2019s%20Games\/ICG%20Activities\/Lists\/Pages\/D4.aspx<\/em><\/p>\n

is not an easy one to put on the board for kids to type;-) http:\/\/glo.li\/9hzYzG<\/a><\/strong> is a lot simpler.<\/p>\n

Charlie’s Toolbar has glo.li built in making it really easy to grab a shortened url from any page in fireFox and Internet Explorer. Unfortunatly for me I am pretty welded to the Safari browser so can’t install the toolbar (I guess someone could make an extension for glo.li) but I did already use applescript with tinyurl for shortening links. I am not sure how many other glow users use applescript too but here is how it works:<\/p>\n

\"Gloli\"<\/p>\n

I commented on Charlie’s blog post asking about acces to gloli via the command line and he kindly explained it to me. I wrapped this up into an appleScript which I assign a keyboard shortcut via FastScripts (I’ve blogged about FastScripts<\/a> before). Now I just press command-alt-control-g to get the url for the current page displated in Safari onto my clipboard ready to paste. I’ve posted the script and how to do this here: glo.li url shortner applescript <\/a> just incase anyone is interested. The script does include the easiest\/lasziest way to strip html I’ve manged to figure out.<\/p>\n

If you are a glow user I suggest that you check out Charlie’s blog<\/a> straight away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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