On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:31:48 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"Douglas de Lacey" wrote in message
...
Harry Bloomfield wrote:


Following a tinyurl carries the risk that you have no means of knowing
just where the link might take you.

If that really worries you, use the otherwise equivalent
www.makeashorterlink.com. This begins by telling you where you are going
to be directed to, and gives you time to cancel.
Douglas de Lacey

Right, I'vegot the ideanow, thanks to (almost) all.

Next question:

How can I send a picture as a tinyurl or makeashorterlink? Do I have to put
it into my website as its own unique file?

Yes, they only do what they say on the tin. IE Make URL's shorter. The
(long) URL and the website it points to has to exist to start with.

If so I'm going to call a grandson to advise - I'm not too hot on
manipulating that!

If you've only got a few pictures to share then
http://geocities.yahoo.com/ will give you a bit of free webspace with
a choice of simple background templates, and even has a javascript
upload tool they will download to your computer so you can publish
your pics in a tolerably polished way, free of charge in 15 mins.

Alternatively http://www.kodakgallery.co.uk will give you a free
photogallery to display your pictures, people you invite may look at
them, run them as a slideshow, and more besides, or even order them as
prints on Kodak paper for a few coppers. They will also have a web URL
so you could disseminate the address on usenet should you so choose.

Yahoo does the same as it happens and IIRC their prints are a copper
or so cheaper, start he

http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=ph&.done=http%3a//uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos&.intl=uk

No - he's not a six year old, when he was I taught him about computing. Now
that he's 21 he knows more than I do. About some things.

HTH

DG