Some urls on the web become a real pain to type because of their length. Tinyurl, and other similar services, can be used to shrink the url to a much more manageable length.
Joe Pruitt has a PowerShell script to perform the shrinking – find it here http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/06/19/shrink-url-ndash-use-powershell-to-shrink-your-urls.aspx
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