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LinkTweet

I've just cooked up a little hack to easily send links to Twitter.

It's inspired by the TwitterLink app which is neat but asks for your Twitter name and password, which I think you should only tell to Twitter themselves.

Basically you add a bookmarklet which sends the current page to my server, I ask the handy is.gd service to shorten the link, then I send you on to Twitter where the tweet box is pre-filled with the is.gd link.

I plan to mainly use it from my iPhone, since it is devoid of copy and paste.

Using secure Web sites more frequently

I've got a little more diligent recently about using encryption where I can. In particular, several sites allow you to use an encrypted connection, but don't force it:

• Google Reader
• Twitter – including for their fine API, so I no longer send my credentials in plain text every few minutes
• Newzleech – a handy index of downloadable content on Usenet
• The Pirate Bay – although these days I go there more often for the amusing legal threats than for anything else

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