The Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/ylfxm8y
It is really helpful for a variety of reasons, but if using, you should just be careful to explain you have shortened the link for their convenience. Even in our comp classes here, we teach people what they can glean from a URL address, and folks should understand that the REAL URL will appear in their address bar after they open it. Meanwhile I've never used the above recipe and can't verify its deliciousness. 
So Zamar. Its cool. I like that there's no registering at all and that certainly saves a step. I think it would be very helpful in the PC area. Only setback I see is that mine took maybe ten minutes? to send to my email, so. Then there's the "I need my time back" whine. But still really useful. I was hoping it would take a PDF or image or something and convert it to a web address, but I couldn't figure that out. I've used Tripod for such things successfully in the past. At any rate. You can now enjoy a seasonal photo of my friend's adorable about 10 month old baby. Zamar successfully converted it from bmp and jpg and tiff and pdf and all those fun things. Again, only setback was it took a while. But he's adorable in all formats and certainly worth the time.
For url shortening one can try www.Aafter.com. A feature of AAfter that is first of its kind in the web world is its generation of smaller URLs for a lengthy URL. If you type URL of any length on the search box, you get two smaller URLs on the original URL. Hence, either of the URLs can be used in place of the original URL to connect to the site. The tiny URLs are easy to remember and use.
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