Fresh into the scene of URL shortening is a local service sURLs. Created by South African Arné Klopper, he is offering a free service whereby you can turn ugly URLs into short and easy to remember equivalents.

Okay, bacically, when you are on the internet and you find a cool site, for example Google Maps(maps.google.com) and you find for Example Gauteng, and the link for the reference to the map is :
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-25.883937,28.482056&spn=3.676433,7.141113&z=8
which is quite a long URL. Sometimes in emails this gets broken when it goes over two lines etc.

Basically what we can do now, is go to sURLs and enter this URL as the URL as give a shorter name for it, let’s call it Gauteng .
I put gauteng in as the short url and the URL from maps.google in the url and click on the arrow to generate the url for me.

sURLs now generated me a new URL which you now can send to your friends:
http://surls.cc/gauteng

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He is obviously not the first person to launch such a service, but it’s nice to see local equivelants popping up and people taking an interest in offering these services to the public at no cost.

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