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Twitter personality Chad Udell (@visualrinse), Flash developer, and all around web guy recently launched a new short URL service, f'n awesome. Do we need more short URL services? Do we need more Twitter clients? Go check it out, and give him some feedback if you like it.
I recently submitted Shrinkadoo for approval in Adobe's AIR marketplace, a sort of online listing for public AIR applications. My submission was successful, so now you can find me on Adobe's website. Hurray!
Adobe AIR application Shrinkadoo has just released a snazzy new feature, history viewer. Now, every URL you create using Shrinkadoo gets stored in a local database for easy retrieval. Create a URL last week, but can't remember what it was? Just use the new History Viewer to quickly view the last 10 URLs. There's even a quick "copy to clipboard" feature to save you time.
We all know the power of Digg.com. Now they're reaching into the short URL space with the Diggbar. A short URL created with the Digg API will display a "Diggbar" across the top of the screen ala the Adjix short URL. It allows the user to digg the story, view comments, get a random Digg URL, and more. This feature was released just in the last day or two and Shrinkadoo, and ShrinkURL already have full support for it. Digg away my friends, Digg away.
Over the weekend I took the time to add TEN new services to ShrinkURL. In addition, because my AIR application Shrinkadoo uses shrinkURL's API, Shrinkadoo now has access to those SAME services, with no update required. The new services are Adjix, Lincr, PiURL, Trakz, Idek, PeaURL, ChilpIt, PntMe, MooURL and HREFin. Use them well.
I've been hard at work on several features within Shrinkadoo which have been requested by many people. Most notably is automatic copy and paste of short URLs. That feature is now included. The app also now remembers the last service you used and loads that up for you right away. That, in conjunction with automated copy and paste means that you can create a new URL in as few as 3 clicks. Also included is better messaging when performing certain actions.
As I'm researching adding features to Shrinkadoo, a jQuery / ColdFusion powered AIR application, I'm learning all sorts of new things about the most excellent AIR framework. One of those things is the ability read to / write from the system clipboard. The ability to copy items to the clipboard is so ubiquitous that it's hard NOT to include it in your app. So let's take a quick peek at how to accomplish this in JavaScript based AIR applications.
Shrinkadoo, my jQuery / ColdFusion powered URL shortening AIR application, has been updated to version 0.4.5 to resolve two bugs:
I recently wrote, and released, an HTML / jQuery AIR application called Shrinkadoo. You can read more about it as you wish, but I'm having trouble with two things relating to updating the app, and I'd love to get some help from you...you know who you are.
I can finally announce what I've been working on for the last few weeks. You might already know of the shrinkURL CFC I wrote, and released on RIAForge. But I'm ready to announce the next phase of that process, Shrinkadoo, jQuery / ColdFusion powered URL shortening AIR application.
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