You: “Really? Another FeedDemon tip? Is that all you do?”

Me: “Um, yeah.”

This isn’t a power tip per se, just a click saving trick to make it easier to send a post’s URL to bit.ly or TinyURL for tweeting or the like.

Fire up Notepad, or your favorite text editor, and paste in the following:

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8”?>
<fdsendto service=”bit.ly” template=”http://bit.ly/?url={url}” />

Save the file as bitly.xml in C:\Program Files\FeedDemon\Data\SendTo

For TinyURL

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8”?>
<fdsendto service=”TinyURL” template=”http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url={url}” />

Save the file as tinyurl.xml in C:\Program Files\FeedDemon\Data\SendTo

SendTo configurations are only loaded when FeedDemon starts, so restart if necessary and then shorten away.