What is deke.me?
deke.me is a service that shortens URLs such as web addresses.
This is useful in many circumstances (see below) e.g. in email clients that break long URLs.

For example you can turn http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=td+banknorth+garden&sll=42.001082,-87.664779&sspn=0.009472,0.015686&ie=UTF8&hq=TD+Banknorth+Garden&hnear=TD+Banknorth+Garden,+Boston,+MA+02114&t=h&z=14
into
http://deke.me/g

Preview
Simply add a hyphen (dash) to the end of the shortened URL. Instead of being redirected to the original
long address automatically, you'll be taken to a preview page telling you where the link goes.

For Example: http://deke.me/g-Boston Bruins

Uses
Here are just a few of the many uses for deke.me's URL shortening service:

• Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle
long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable

• Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone

• Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site

• If you dislike a website and have to mention it (e.g. when complaining about it),
link via deke.me so that your link does not help the site's search engine positioning

• Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter

• Obscure your real email address from bots which harvest them to spam (enter an address like mailto:user.name@example.com)