Make Long URL's Manageable
When URL's that you can revisit directly are still long, while
bookmarking is still an option, it is still unpleasant for other
purposes (such as citing resources). Fortunately, there is
a service at http://tinyurl.com/.
You copy the long URL from the URL window, paste it into the
TinyURL search engine, and it provides to you in its place a
Tiny URL that will work for then on. Here is an example: