Artumi Systems has written a replacement for tinyurl.com. It’s mentioned in other parts of the site, but I thought I would mark it’s existence in the blog. It is a simple application whose purpose is to turn long URLs into short ones which are suitable for reading out over the phone, or placing in an email.

There are a number of advantages of using this over using tinyurl.com.

• The domain is your own, and therefore looks better
• The links can be set up to report how many times it has been viewed. That means that you can send a link to someone and find out if they bothered to click it.
• It is free of adverts
• The URLs are more suited to being read out over the phone, compared to the URLs produced by tinyurl.com, as letters such as “b” and “p” do not appear in the short URL.

Like tinyurl.com our short links website is free for anyone to use.

Enjoy!

In the tradition of all first posts on a blog I will lay down the aims and purposes of this blog. In short I hope that this blog will:

• Record Artumi Systems’ news.
• Record any strange things I find during the development process.
• Briefly record important industry news.

I hope that this blog will be well maintained and informative. This blog isn’t going to contain idle rubbish. I hope.