TinyURL.com link shortener with custom naming feature

    Sometimes you want to give someone a link, whether in an email or on a webpage/blog but the link is either too long or ugly.  Try www.tinyurl.com, go to the site;

    Paste in a link from your clipboard.  My example is an Ebay page whose link has 127 characters, the fun part is the the "Custom Alias" feature which lets you name your link!  Here I have am using "green-glasses", all links begin with "http://tinyurl.com/" making my new custom link "http:/tinyurl.com/green-glasses".

My link went from 127 random characters to 32 hand picked, not bad!

    Now you can copy and paste your new custom named shortened link wherever you want!  TinyURL claim that their links will never break in an email and never expire!

    Chrome users may want to check out the goo.gl URL Shortener extension.  Unfortunately there is no custom naming ability, but no need to navigate to a new site either!