Anyone who's using Twitter will realise that it shortens big URLs (web addresses) to bit.ly/somecode addresses (cos it's only giving you 140 characters to spill your life story). Or, you might have seen tinyurl.com addresses around too, which do the same thing. Save you typing www.thisisareallylongdomainname.com/thisisthebitaftertheslash/gibberish.com and allows you to type tinyurl.com/sdfoll or something.
Anyhoo, these can be bad for you, in that you don't know where you're being sent on the interweb - you don't know what type of site you'll end up on. Internet Explorer users scroll to the bottom of the post....
So somebody clever has developed a Firefox extension at http://tinyurl.com/9hnqrz (same destination, just used as an example!) which allows you to hover over these shortened addresses before you click on them and find out where they're going to lead you. I've not been using it for long, but it seems helpful. Firefox users, scroll to the bottom of the post and nod sagely....
Internet Explorer users - Firefox is more customisable and nicerer. Switch soon. Then read the paragraph above this one.
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