Jumping Through Hoops » shrinker http://blog.jameshiggs.com James Higgs's Blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Shrinker: Simple URL shortening for Mac OS X http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/04/03/shrinker-simple-url-shortening-for-mac-os-x/ http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/04/03/shrinker-simple-url-shortening-for-mac-os-x/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:18:11 +0000 higgis http://blog.jameshiggs.com/?p=241 After several years, mainly of inactivity, I recently released a beta of Shrinker, my Mac OS X app that makes using services like is.gd, bit.ly, TinyURL and tr.im a whole lot easier.

If you want to try out the beta, head on over to the product page at Puffing Bear and download it today.

I will hopefully be ready to release a version 1.0 of Shrinker fairly shortly. It’ll be free in the sense of “free beer”. Its primary purpose was as a learning project for me, so I’m not interested in opening the source at the moment. That doesn’t mean I won’t be at some point in the future, though.

I’m making it free for a few reasons. First, I don’t think I’d make any meaningful amount of money out of it. Second, it was conceived as a learning project for me, and to scratch my own itch – a lack of a similar tool for the Mac. And, finally, I’ve received so much wonderful help from the Mac developer community, both directly and through searching blogs and mailing list archives, that I felt I should try to contribute something back. I haven’t got around to it yet, but there I’ll put a full list of acknowledgements in the About panel and on the website before I release version 1.0

I hope you like Shrinker, and please let me know if you find any bugs or have any suggestions.

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