Shorten your lenghty URLs with Shorty

Shorty is a simple application which convert your lengthy URLs and permalinks into more simple and human readable version. It’s like saying “excellent” instead of “supercalifragilisticexpecialidocious”.

Tiny URL has been there forever but it’s being ran elsewhere and if their server crashes or simply decide to call it off, there is nothing you could do since you don’t have control over it. Shorty is a software that you run on your own server so it depends solely on your administration.

Here’s how to install Shorty on your blog or website:

1. Download the Shorty application files and extract the zipped contents in your local folder.
2. Open the configuration.php file and change the login details according to your server configuration.
3. Upload the Shorty application files on your server via FTP.
4. Call the _install.php file by keying in the URL in your browser.
5. Create your login name and password and that’s it.

To create a Shorty URL:

1. Key-in your lengthy URL in the text field.
2. You could opt to assign a certain keyword (this is useful if your cloaking multiple URLs from a single domain) or have Shorty randomize it for you (in this case proceed to step 3)
3. Click the Get URL button.

Now why do you want to use Shorty?

1. This is useful in cloaking your affiliate links so to avoid loosing your affiliates.
2. To make all things bright and beautiful.
3. To make some pathetic commenter angry for whatever reason they may have for being angry.
4. Put your reason here.

So is Shorty for free?

Shorty is a freeware developed by Khoi Vinh and Reed Morse just so everyone could be happy. Now if they made you happy and you want them to be as happy as you, you could do so by offering your shorty donations.

Paid to Click Sites and Networks

As the name implies, Paid to Click networks pay you for clicking advertisements. The general payment rate is $0.01 for every ad you click and read for at least 30 seconds while you earn $0.005 per every ad your referral click for the same amount of time. Members will be given 10 ads to click and read for a day with would give you a daily income of $0.10.

If you will look at it as is, these Paid to Click programs seem to give you too little income per day but it you will look at a bigger picture, the potential is rather great if you will consider growing your network.

Let’s say you have managed to click all of your assigned ads, you are about to earn $3.00 in a month (30 days x 10 ads x $0.01 per ad). Meanwhile, you’re also earning half of what your affiliate clickers are earning. Say, you have at least 10 registered affiliate clickers, your will earn another $15.00 in a month (10 referrals x 30 days x 10 ads x $0.005 per ad). Your monthly earning plus half of your affiliate earnings will earn you $18.00 in a month.

Imagine how much would you earn if you are to have more than a hundred affiliates getting paid to click for you and for each of them?

Aside from this, Paid to Click networks also provide other opportunities for you to increase your earnings. Some of them offers Golden Membership which would at least double your normal income. Others allow you to earn from your third, fourth or fifth level affiliates.

Here’s a rough list of PTC Networks:

Neobux B-U-X.net BUX.to Cash Harvest 10Bux Think Bux Extra10 TheRichCash

Clicksense Advercash Xclix Paid Click TheClickers TrustUrBox Seven-Bux

FineBux MiBux Earn Easy Cash Prowling Panther Cash4Grabs

What if you will join more than one Paid to Click network and have all your affiliates to join all of them as well. Wouldn’t that be additional earning multiplier?

When these Paid to Click networks came into existence, PayPal has declined to work with them so members had to opt for another payment system such as Alert Pay and the likes but recently PayPal has approved to work with verified clients.

So invite all your friends, your whole family, your country’s president and the whole country. But remember to sign-up either with PayPal or AlertPay to ensure your payments.

Antidisestablishmentarianism or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Thinking for the most exquisite domain name? Why not these words:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. Other than that, this word’s purpose is to serve as the longest word. I have recited this perhaps for a thousand times since I learned it from high school. I can recite the word without pausing to catch my breath or even while half asleep or lucid dreaming.

I have a strong feeling that this word has been invented to top the previous longest English word antidisestablishmentarianism which was defined as the principles of those who oppose the withdrawal of the recognition or support of the state from an established church, usually used in referring to the Anglican Church in the 19th century in England.

Antidisestablishmentarianism used to be longest word in the English dictionary but thanks to our medical experts, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis currently owns this title.

How about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? It’s not even an English word but Microsoft Outlook spelling checker recognizes the spelling.

Can you spell all of them without pausing?

Sources: Google, Wikipedia