AirLink

AirLink, in my opinion, is the most convenient way to share a link from your computer to your iPhone. No account or registration needed.

Just visit the Install page and:

1) Drag the bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar
2) Bookmark the custom j.mp short URL on your iPhone

The next time you are on a web page that you would like to view on your iPhone, simply hit the bookmarklet you have saved earlier. A black box will appear and disappear almost instantly.

Now whip out your iPhone, visit the bookmarked j.mp link (in step 2) and you would be redirected to the desired page automatically. As simple as that.

notesforlater

If you still can’t rid the habit of emailing links to yourself, at least make it a simpler process. notesforlater, like AirLink, will provide you a custom bookmarklet upon submitting the email address you would like to use.

There are two bookmarklet. If you click on the first bookmarklet, notesforlater will email you the link, highlighted text, and the time you accessed the page. The second bookmarklet does exactly the same thing as the first, but with the ability to add personal notes this time.

Saves you from launching your email client, hit “Compose”, copy paste the URL and all that trouble just to share a fricking link.

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Send Link to iPhone From Your Browser

Even Tweetmeme won’t do the trick, you can only track tweets that have your blog’s domain name in it with it.

BackTweets

BackTweets is able to track tweets with link to a specific domain name (all blogpost/pages within the domain name), whether they are masked by short URLs or not. Just simply enter your blog’s domain name and Backtweets will return you with a list of tweets that links to your blog.

As if it’s not providing enough value to fellow bloggers, which as far as I’m concerned, such tracking is unavailable anywhere else, Backtweets also make it possible for you to subscribe to email alerts when someone tweets your blog, for free. You can opt to receive email alerts once a week, once a day, or instantly everytime your blog link appears on Twitter.

Credits to Rarst for the awesome find.

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How To Track Your Blog’s Presence on Twitter

Martin suggested the use of Short URL WordPress Plugin to do the job, but I see a better way to do it.

Back to the basic, what was the permalink structure when you first installed WordPress? The ugly permalink structure that looks like this:

http://www.sheeptech.com/?p=123 (123 is the Post-ID)

Most WordPress users would change their permalink structure to a more SEO friendly ones, instead of keeping the ugly permalink structure above.

However, an ugly permalink will not stop working even after the permalink structure is changed. Instead, it will automatically redirect you to the actual blog post with the correct permalink. For example:

http://www.sheeptech.com/?p=881 will redirect to http://www.sheeptech.com/youtube-mutes-video-with-copyrighted-songs

Say I would like to share my blog post on YouTube Muting Videos on Twitter, I’d post it as (http://www.sheeptech.com/?p=881), instead of the full permalink of it or a third party short URL like http://tr.im/8y5j.

How to identify Post-ID?
The ugly permalink structure looks like this: http://www.sheeptech.com/?p=[Post-ID]. You first have to identify the Post-ID of your blog post, before you can use the ugly permalink as a short URL.

To identify the Post-ID of your blog post, just look at the address bar when you are editing or writing a post. The Post-ID would be the number next to “post=“.

The benefits:

• No extra work. The ugly permalink is generated automatically everytime you publish a blog post. No need of a plugin at all.
• The URL will not be broken. Even when you change your permalink struture again, the ugly permalink will still point to the same blog post. If you’re using a plugin to shorten URLs, they might be broken if the plugin went wrong, but the ugly permalink will almost never be broken.
• You can call up the Post ID within your blog template using the <?php the_ID(); ?> tag.

As there is no extra work for this method, I can conveniently add a Twitter button onto all my blog post. This is the line I inserted to single.php:

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading: (<?php the_title(); ?>) at http://sheeptech.com/?p=<?php the_ID(); ?>"><img src="http://www.sheeptech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/twiter_01-w32-h32.png" alt="Tweet This" /></a>


Click on the blue bird at the end of this post for a demo.

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WordPress Ugly Permalink as Short URL for Twitter-ing