September 29th, 2008 by Ian O'Donnell

Ok this tip first of can be used for any forum, platform or service which requires a specific format of link. for example forums usually want something like [link=http://www.ianodonnell.com]Home Page[/link] which can be annoying as it takes time compared to just a simple copy paste.

I will use the Microblogging service Jaiku as an example here for this one but as I said it can be used for any service and is very easy to modify, I achieved this through Firefox and an addon called Make Link. you should go get it immediately. Install it from the link provided and once you have, restart Firefox and we are ready to finish up.

In your addon list (*Tools -> Addons) click options on the Make Link addon and click “new”. The format we need for a Jaiku link is [link text](url), so, Put in anything as the name, in this case I used “Jaiku” and in the format type [%text%](%url%).

%text% is simply a parameter to give it which will be our page title

%url% is the url of the current page

So a real-world example of [%text%](%url%) would be [Ian O'Donnell Home Page](http://www.ianodonnell.com), So you get how it works now right? This can be modified in any way just place the %text% and %url% in the format you require.

Now you can click “Ok” and close all the addon windows etc. Just as a test run, visit a site and right click on the page, you will see “Make Link” and an options, if you hover over it, in this example one of the options you see is “Jaiku”, lo and behold you have a link of that format in your clipboard to go paste as you need.

A long description I know but it will make your life so much easier especially as it can be modded to suit and format you need. Also you should check out how to shorten any url to make it highly presentable quickly and easily using another addon

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