NotSoSmartGuy Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 I remember a while back someone gave me a website. It was from www.tinyurl.com and they said go here to this website and download it, and it worked :) Problem So I have this document and I would like to say to people go to www.tinyurl.com/2882 and you can download it. I went to the website www.tinyurl.com, but I can't seem to figure it out. Perhaps someone can advise me where I went wrong. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Alladaskill17 Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Tiny URL is a site that just shortens the actual length of the URL, same place, just redirects to the longer (original) link. To have people download things, you must have the file uploaded to either your own site, preferably, or another site such as imgur.com for images, other hosting sites for other media. TinyURL has nothing to do with the hosting (upload / download in your case) of files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Did you go to TinyURL at all to see where you "Enter in your URL" to make it shorter? You need a previous URL in order for this to work. If you have a file you want them to download, it has to be hosted. If it's just on your computer, this method will not work. Best bet: Sign up for Dropbox and add the file there; Then share the public URL with your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nub Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 I wish I knew what the heck you were talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted June 1, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted June 1, 2010 It's all straight forward, it's basically just a link to a link. The link is real short though, it sorta reminds me of the old .TK domains from years ago. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nick H. Supervisor Posted June 1, 2010 Supervisor Share Posted June 1, 2010 I wish I knew what the heck you were talking about TinyURL is a website that allows you to input a really long link and make it shorter and more readable. For example, here is a link to a youtube playlist: TinyURL allows me to shorten that link to just this: http://tinyurl.com/2w2y3b5 It's the same link (as in, either link will take you to the same place), but TinyURL has allowed me to reduce the number of characters to a reasonable amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrJohnSmitherson Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Tinyurl makes urls (links) shorter. Lets pretend this is the link your friend sent you for the file- "http://yourfriendswebsite.com/files/thatimportantfile.zip" Notice that the above link is really long! Your friend wants it to be smaller for you. So he goes to TinyUrl and puts in "http://yourfriendswebsite.com/files/thatimportantfile.zip" Then TinyUrl gives him http://tinyurl.com/1234 Now when you click on "http://tinyurl.com/1234" it ACTUALLY sends you to "http://yourfriendswebsite.com/files/thatimportantfile.zip" TinyUrl just redirects people to the original, longer, link. Now if you want to share a file you can go to http://mediafire.com or http://filedropper.com and upload your file for free. Then the website will give you a download link. If you want you can take that download link and put it into TinyUrl and get your own TinyUrl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jenny J. Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Do this... go to rapidshare.com Click on the "Choose..." button which is besides the blank box. Select your document which you wish to share. Click on "Upload" It will start uploading, wait till it uploads completely. Then you will get a download link Something like http://rapidshare.com/files/394296123/filename.zip now go to tinyurl.com Paste the above rapidshare link in the box and click "Make TinyUrl!" then you will get an url which you can share with your friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I remember a while back someone gave me a website. It was from www.tinyurl.com and they said go here to this website and download it, and it worked :)
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So I have this document and I would like to say to people go to www.tinyurl.com/2882 and you can download it.
I went to the website www.tinyurl.com, but I can't seem to figure it out. Perhaps someone can advise me where I went wrong.
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