okay, it's really my second apollo application.  But it seemed silly for my first apollo blog entry here to say "My second apollo application" when I never mentioned the first one.  Plus, the first one is really an internal app for my job that serves no purpose outside my department.

Anyway, if you participate in a lot of mailing lists, then you probably use tinyurl a lot.  Need a shorten a URL, load up www.tinyurl.com, paste in your url, and submit.  It returns a nice "tiny url" for you.

Well now you can have a little flex app running all the time called "My Url Shortener" that does the same thing, without having to launch a browser.  Just keep it running.. put it in your startup or something like that. 

To run this application, you'll first need to install the Apollo Runtime from Adobe, then get the MyUrlShortener installer and run it.

If you'd like the source, which includes the mxml, cfc, and cfm files, along with a README.TXT, the LICENCE.TXT, the air file, and a sample virtual host entry from httpd.conf using mod_rewrite, you should download MyUrlShortner.zip.