If you’ve seen some Wordpress blogs or online stores you’ve probably seen url-s in the form of http://somepage.com/product.php?id=4. These sites pass variables to scripts using the url. The script will scan the url for these and you can use them in a database query for example. This is the technology that allows Wordpress templates to [...]
Shrinkomatic URL Shortening With A Twist
Ghacks author Daniel Pataki is pretty busy these days with all the new Internet websites and services that he is creating. His latest service is called Shrinkomatic. It is an url shortening service with one interesting unique feature.
But first things first. To shorten an url one would simply head over to the Shrinkomatic website and [...]
View All Registered URL Protocols
You might have heard of URLs before when someone referred to an Internet address as an URL. URL Protocols are for example http, mailto or ftp and they have to be registered on the system to be of any use. Each URL protocol is registered to a specific application that handles that type, the mailto [...]
Official Google url Alternatives
Did you know that Google hosts several alternate domain names on their servers that all point to the Google search engine ? Instead of accessing google.com you could use an official Google domain name like 138008.org.ru or msm.byu.edu instead to use the Google search engine.
Auto Copy Firefox Extension
Auto Copy is one of those Firefox extensions that are small and add new functionalities to the Mozilla Firefox. Did you ever receive a email with a link that breaks the line and uses two lines to be displayed ? It is not possible to just left-click the link to visit the website because the link is cut off after the first line. The website can’t be displayed. This happens often in mails that require a confirmation after a forum registration for instance.
Url Fixer Extension for Firefox
I’m a fast typer and it occasionally happens that I make errors when entering urls. I always hate it when I have to edit the url because i typed ghacks.nez instead of ghacks.net for instance. I’m lazy and always looking for ways to keep being lazy. Url Fixer is one of those nice little extensions for Firefox that helps me a lot when I’m using Firefox.
