You might have thought how safe is to click on a link which your friends send to you. Many links would be malicious. It would be good to preview the link before you click them. Here are some options to make things Safe For Work (SFW)
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- Using Google Cache - of course, the simplest and most widely used technique. Put the URL into google and see the cached version
- Tackle Short URLs - See the contents or the real URL behind the short URL is bit tricky. But fortunately, there are some good sites out there to get the meta information and even the screenshot !! eg. longurl.org
- Use Proxy sites - There are tons of proxy sites out there where you can tryout. You could use mine if required. whatitem.appspot.com
- Mask the website on first load - If you slowly want to see what's inside a website, but it shouldn't open up immediately there are some cool tools. variablysfw.appspot.com is a good website. It masks the required content website using a black mask and you can then use a slider to increase the transparency.
- Print contents of a URL and view it - Useful sites (like PDFmyURL.com or similar) where you can print the content of a URL. i.e. convert and save any web page to PDF. I suggest you not to download the PDF, but just view in browser and discard it.