Fortunately, it is easy to expand the URL address bar on all of the major Web browsers, namely Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, so you have room to type long addresses.

Address Book includes a useful feature that you may not be aware of, as it’s not really fully enabled by default. The feature is the ability to store a URL with a contact—you can see this on ...

The contents of the bit.ly address space searched also had privacy implications. Of the six-character tokens, "42% resolved to actual URLs," Shmatikov wrote— 42,229,055 URL mappings, of which ...