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One of the problems with long url’s is that, when you paste them into an email message, the url can be broken by a line break. There are two solutions to this problems. The first is using the edit link feature in apple mail. To use this method highlight any text within the body of your email message, right click (⌃click), and choose edit link from the contextual menu. In the edit link dialog box paste the obtrusively long URL. The text will appear to the recipient as a hyperlink (assuming they accept HTML formatted email).

The second answer to this problem is tiny urls. You can take any long and complex url and enter into the tiny url conversion tool at tinlyurl.com. The site will output a url that looks something like http://tinyurl.com/2t6wrs. The only problem with this approach is that it is inconvenient. In comes tinyURL.service from RiverDark Studios. When you download and install tinyURL.service three menu items will appear in the services menu.

1. Shrink URL
2. Shrink URL and copy to clipboard
3. Shrink URL to clipboard

You can highlight any url and choose Shrink URL to clipboard from the services menu and paste it anywhere you would like. Take it a step further, you can add a keyboard shortcut to Shrink URL to clipboard. In doing so you can copy, convert, and paste with two keyboard shortcuts and a pear tree.

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