Trying out with Free URL Shorteners

 

There are many free sites that provide the functionality to shorten the URLi. URL shortening is very effective, when you have a complex URL but to easily share, you want to shorten it, thus allowing you to post on tweeter feeds, easy for people to remember, and many sites also provide the feature to record the stats, so that you can keep a eye, how many hits you got.

We feel very tempted specially about the clicks monitoring part, and so, decided to test these features, with the URL shortener sites, available in market, of course, this list contains some of those, who are free, as you all must be knowing, Qalixa strongly believes in “free things” !

There is already a post published in our tech blog, about Qalixa’s link shortened by various URL’s. In this post, we simply review  those in a brief manner.

Top 3 services according to us are goo.gl, bit.ly  & su.pr in no respective order, su.pr is very famous Stumble Upon community, goo.gl is service by google, and bit.ly is very popular with tweeter.

Our fun ends for now with the URL Shorteners, how did it went for you ?

Qalixa Shortened URL

Qalixa 's shortened URL using different URL shorteners. 
You can read about URL Shorteners here & here .


These shortened URL's can be used for publicity / marketing via twitter / facebook / emails.


1) goo.gl link : 
http://goo.gl/3UMVv 
Statistical information available @  goo.gl Stats for Qalixa 


2) bit.ly   Link : 
http://bit.ly/lrOjhR 
Statistical information available @  bit.ly Stats for Qalixa


3) tiny URL Link : 
http://tinyurl.com/6jp5az7


4) Stumbled Upon Link : 
http://su.pr/17Hk14
Statistical Information available @ SU Stats for Qalixa



5) Ow.Ly Link : 
http://ow.ly/4OuwA


6) is.gd Link : 
http://is.gd/LEwgOZ


7) cli.gs Link : 
http://cli.gs/b0pr0T


8) SnipURL .com Link : 
http://snipurl.com/27t3ia
  
Have you  been using any URL Shortener recently ? Are you monitoring the clicks ? How did it go ? Share with us your experiences !!! 

QR Codes

QR = Quick Responsive Codes are very popular now a days, and why they shouldnt be ?

They are easy to use for marketing, they are new & they are hot.

Started from Japan, the QR code has now spread across whole world, the significant contributor to this revolution are many great applications on iPhone, android phones, smartphones, or computer, which can extract the information out of simple black & white squares.

Why not you yourself do the fun, trace out the QR Code below, if needed, the links are given below for your reference :

More Resources & useful links :

Wikipedia of QR Code :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

How to read QR Code in Ubuntu :

http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/03/how-to-read-qr-code-in-ubuntu.html

How to read QR Code from your PC :

http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/read-qr-codes-on-pc.html

How to read QR Code on your iPhone :

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-qrcode/

QR Code for Nokia Phones :

http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/

How to generate your QR Code :

1) From Kaywa :

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

2) From neoReader :

http://www.neoreader.com/create-your-own-code

Webhallen's integration

We feel very proud to announce that Qalixa is now equipped with more then 30K offers for its increasing number of satisfied users.
This makes total of 31469 offers, which are live today.
We are grateful to Webhallen, and also to our technical team, who integrated such a huge number of offers in less then a week.

" This was a easy task, the way we have designed the system, we can integrate offers very fast, however it was the Quality Checking that took the most of time. ", quoted one of our developer.

We invite our swedish & global  users to go shopping @ qalixa.com

For other retailers / stores, we are simply thinking, how long will it take for you to take such a simple decision?
Join us, and be a part of global revolution.
Register yourself @ qalixa.com and add the offers for free !

simulate your internet speed

Your application is ready, deployed on web servers and running 24/7.

On development environment, everything looked nice & cool, but you get the responses from public, which creates nightmare for developers. "It takes a very Loooooooonnnnnggg time to load the pages of your site.

To, avoid the nightmare of not knowing that you can test your site from various user's perspectives, we are in this post sharing with you the links and things, which can enable you to simulate your internet speed, find out yourself, how fast is your page loading.....

Simulate your internet speed

1) Simulate browser :

1.1) On firefox, use firefox throttle, addon that simulates network speed, which even works for localhost sites

http://www.uselessapplications.com/en/Application/FirefoxThrottle.aspx

1.2) For InternetExplorer / Firefox / Opera, use a proxy plugin known as fiddler :

fiddler works with proxy concept and is found at :

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

1.3) Use charles (shareware)

http://www.charlesproxy.com/

2) Simulate your OS :

2.1) On Ubuntu, you can go for iprelay at :

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/en/man1/iprelay.1.html

2.2) On *nix family OS, you could also try dummynet, details available at :

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/

2.3) On Debian systems you could also try :

$ iprelay -b2500 8000:localhost:80

# Point browser at http://localhost:8000

2.4) For Linux, there is also a tool called netem, you can find more details for netem at :

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem

2.5) For windows, you can try "speed simulator", more details at :

http://www.ngcoders.com/downloads/internet-speed-simulator-proxy-throttler

2.6) For iphone, you can try speed limiter, available at :

http://mschrag.github.com/

You can also try netlimiter at http://www.netlimiter.com/