Shrinklet 1.0.0

September 30, 2004

I’ve come up with a little utility (download here) which runs as a tray-app which periodically scans the clipboard looking for URLs. When it detects one it pops up a balloon as asks if you would like it shrunk.

 If you click the balloon it will go off and talk to Shrinkster.com and turn that URL into something smaller. At the same time it will update the clipboard with the smaller URL so you can paste it into whatever document you are working on without having to go to the site, paste in the URL, submit it and copy it back into the clipboard.

If you don’t know what Shrinkster.com is, check it out! It is a cool little web-app like TinyURL.com. I was put on to Shrinkster.com after listening to .NET Rocks! (I think they were using TinyURL.com up until then).

Anyway, download the setup file and give it a go, let me know if it rulz or droolz, and to tell others about it.

P.S. Thanks to Kyle Tinsley (blog?) from Shrinkster.com for making the scraping a little easier and to Darren Neimke from RegExLib.com for the regular expressions advice via IM, oh an to Geoff Appleby for being my post man, oh and Hans Blomme (blog?) for his cool NotifyIconXP (link shrunk with Shrinklet ) component. And also . . . *music starts*

Posted by Mitch Denny
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14 Responses to “Shrinklet 1.0.0”

  1. Kyle Tinsley Says:

    September 30, 2004 at 12:00 am

    Very nice Mitch. Works like a charm!!

  2. Martin Plante Says:

    September 30, 2004 at 12:00 am

    Cool!!! Can we have the sources? :-)

  3. David Gottlieb Says:

    October 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

    Great tool Mitch! I was hoping someone would come up with a more convenient way to do this.

  4. Omar K. Says:

    October 16, 2004 at 12:00 am

    Very app indeed; even nicer to have the source :-)

  5. leighsword Says:

    October 18, 2004 at 12:00 am

    where can i download source code.

    i never use a software of no source code.

    i never use Windows till i found Win2k source code.

  6. Mitch Denny Says:

    October 18, 2004 at 12:00 am

    Hi there,

    You can download the source releases over at:

    http://shrinkster.com/1ky :)

  7. Ziche Fu Says:

    October 21, 2004 at 12:00 am

    leighsword never use source codes, he loves them for some kinds of hobby.

  8. Alan Says:

    December 16, 2004 at 12:00 am

    This is cool utility

  9. Mitch Denny Says:

    December 17, 2004 at 12:00 am

    Glad you like it!

  13. Frank Arrigo Says:

    November 20, 2006 at 8:03 am

    Mitch

    How about an update to .net v2. so i can install on vista happily.

  14. Jon Jesperson Says:

    April 19, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    I’ve been using Tinyclip (http://www.hadihariri.com/Downloads/index.aspx) for over 1′5 years now. Love it. Glad to see there’s others doing the same thing.


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