Missing Links
Need to shorten a URL, but don’t like the mishmash of numbers and letters some sites give you? Check out www.socuteurl.com. Enter a Web site address you’d like shortened, and this site will give it an adorable name involving words such as peppydog and mashygooboo.
Have a title for a story but not the guts of it? Over at www.nameyourtale.com, you provide the title and someone will write a 100-word story based on it. The authors at the site don’t do their job halfway, either. For example, the title “No, I Won’t Eat That Doughnut” generated a tale of office boredom and an intense description of the pastry. Submit your own title or just enjoy the stories.
Do you have a user name you use for everything? Are you often frustrated when you sign up for something and your handle has already been taken? Stop the madness with namechk.com, which combs a variety of popular sites (such as eBay, Facebook and Twitter, among others) and finds which sites already have a user with your preferred name. Or, use it to see if your name is available and snatch it up before anyone else can get to it.
Do you have an interesting Web site you’d like to share with other readers? Send it to Melissa Sullivan at msullivan@review journal.com.