Cool idea, but using Snow Leopard, and DropBitly 0.1, I can’t ‘Choose…’ the DB Public path using Preferences. I guessed and added DropBoxPublicFolder key into com.beefdisciple.DrobBitly.plist with my path to DB Pulbic folder. It showed up in the Preferences, but couldn’t use the drag-and-drop goodness… the file never went to the Public folder and, of course, no bit.ly link…

@Greg K.
Huh, good find. I was testing on Leopard and didn’t see any issues like that, but at home on Snow Leopard there does appear to be something funky going on. I am going to try to get it fixed soon. Thanks!

if I drag and drop a file onto the dock icon when DropShorty isn’t already running, I get the ‘Overwrite File?’ message. I’m running 10.6.3.

And this would be my suggestion for another URL shortening service to add: http://www.icanhaz.com (icnhz.com also works)

cheers!

@Kenty, thanks that is indeed another bug. I am going to find some time soon and try to fix the issues. Thanks for commenting!

@Kenty, unfortunately I can’t use icnhz.com, as they require the user to input a stub, and it doesn’t really mesh with DropShorty’s non-existant UI. Sorry!

Tried it and loved it.

Question: how much work would it require to create a version that lives in the menu bar? I’d have more room there than on my Dock.

Anyhow: thanks. This is good.

@OlliS – thanks! You’re not the first one to suggest the menu-bar idea, and I think it’s a good one. I do plan on making an update but we recently had a baby boy, so I haven’t had a ton of spare development time.

Thanks for the lovely droplet.

One question: is it possible to get the long URl?

Anyway, congrats on your new baby boy

Thanks for your great droplet!
The only things that doesn’t work are filenames which contains accented words (non English language)
The Dropbox URL won’t work if, for example, the name of the file contains “è”…
The text should be encoded to make dropbox understand the URL.

Thanks, anyway!

Cosimo

@Cosimo – that’s a great find, and it will be an easy fix once I find some time to update the project. Thanks for the feedback, sorry to be so english-centric

Hey there, great droplet, but is there any chance you could add a growl notification for when the file has finished uploading and the URL is copied to the clipboard?

Something like this perhaps?
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=4659#post-38997

that would be amazing!

it’s be awesome if we could add our own javascript bookmarklets to pipe the url to various applications expanding your options beyond just the clipboard.

option for a menubar icon and hiding the dock would also be welcomed.

Great app! But how about adding support for Dropbox’ own link shortening service? (See: http://goo.gl/oATGs)

@blaze – unfortunately there’s no public API to use DropBox’s own db.tt shortening service. I will look into it and see if it can be hacked about.

@Matthew, this is a great idea, and something I will definitely take into consideration.

glad to find this – i’d totally support the $1 appstore idea. and hopefully that’d help make it worthwhile for you to work on some of these bugs and new ideas.

my request would be a file manager that can help remind me to delete files after a set amount of days (kind of like the yousend it idea) – so i can email clients large files and let them know it’s only available for 7 days. even better, if it automatically deletes files for me.

perhaps there’s another db app that does this.

Love this! The App Store idea is perfect – go for it!

Hi,

I would buy it in the App Store!

And I had a problem with copying my bit.ly API-key into the app… it wasn’t possible so I had to type the 200 numbers and characters into your app by hand.

Now everything works fine but all the things you planed would make DropShorty a lot better!

Thanks!

Herbert, thanks for your comment. I realize the current version of DropShorty is quite out of date right now. I am in fact working on a complete re-write for version 1.0 which I should hopefully have done in a few weeks.

love it! thanks so much for making it.

Thank you so much for making this one! Are there any chances for a menubar droplet? Don’t want to ask too much, though

hello!

Thanks for this awesome plugin! But there is one thing that would make it even much more awesome – lots of people are using their own open source url shortening service on their own (or friends) host and it is http://yourls.org/ Its API is really simple. It will take maximum one hour for you to implement it

Please start charging for this, either in the app store or on your site. I’d love to use this more with the features you have suggested

@kevin – thanks , I really plan on doing it, but things have been crazy at my day job, but soon I hope!

@stefan, yes the plan for 1.0 is to have DropShorty be a menubar droplet type of thing. Hopefully I will get some time soon to work on it.