Many choose a pretty long company name when signing up for Bushel. The Open Enrollment link is generated based on the shortened version of this company name. This link can then be supplied to your users to make it quick and easy for them to enroll (or add) devices into your Bushel. Some end up with a company name that’s difficult to tell others or difficult for others to type. Many of our customers would also like a link on their site that customers can be pointed to. There are a few ways of achieving shorter, easier, or custom links. We’ll go through two, but there are a lot of other strategies you…
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Removing A Domain Name From A Google Search
When you are searching Google, you can restrict your search to a specific domain. For example, if you would like to find a page with the pattern “man touch” on https://krypted.com/ then you can constrain a Google search using the site: operator. The search dialog box would then read: "man touch" site:krypted.com But if you don’t find my posts helpful then you can remove the domain name from your Google searches, done by running the same, but with a “-” in front of the domain name, which given the above search inverted would be: "man touch" site:-krypted.com The resultant URL is then: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:-krypted.com. To take this a step further, you…
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Scripting FaceTime
I will go through long stretches without playing with new technology until I either get unbusy or get talked into figuring out how to do something remotely interesting with it. Like linking FaceTime up to a help desk database. It turns out that Apple made it a very straight forward process. Simply use a facetime handler as the prefix to a URL with the phone number of the other person (iPhone 4) or their FaceTime email address (usually with the desktop app). For example, if my email were krypted@krypted.com then you could use the following from terminal: open facetime://krypted@krypted.com Or if my phone number were 310-555-1212 (it is you know;):…
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URL Shortening in WordPress
I’m now doing my own URL Shortening using the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. For example, the following link is a bit long: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/christmas-in-the-heart/id331549170 So using Pretty Link, I tell it to add a link and then it gets shortened down to (or aliased to more like it): https://krypted.com//bob
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URL Obfuscation
There are a number of sites that have jumped up to allow you to use a URL for the site to point to your own. Many of these are for allowing you to use smaller URLs for what could otherwise be a lengthy path. Of these tinyurl.com seems to be the most popular, a free, ad-sponsored site that litters twitter feeds. Reducing the amount of characters in a database can save a considerable amount of space, according to how many links you have. It can also allow you to paste links that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to use in sites that don’t allow enough characters for lengthy URLs.…