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Everybody gets junk e-mail (also called spam e-mail) in their e-mail accounts and most of us just delete them. One some days we get so many junk messages, that we have to waste a considerable amount of time in just deleting them. If you are using the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client then you can set it to automatically delete the junk e-mail messages as soon as they are marked as junk in your e-mail inbox.

Most often you want to post the shortened URLs of various web pages in various social media sites like twitter, Facebook etc. If you are a Firefox web browser user, then you are in luck because you can create shortened URLs using the TinyURL Generator add-on. This add-on lets you create the shortened URLs of the current web page, or any link on a web page at the click of a button.

Many times when you try to open a web site, the web browser throws up an error and does not load the web page. It may say something like server not found. Before you start thinking that it is a problem on your computer, first thing to check would be if that site is down or not. You can quickly check if that site can be accessed by others using the Uptime Auditor.

When you search Google for a word or a phrase, all the time some websites dominate the search results. If you do not like them to appear in the search results list, then you can block them in the Google Chrome browser using Personal Blocklist. The Personal Blocklist is a Chrome browser extension which lets you block a domain/host in the Google search results.

Internet Explorer 9 no longer plays any sounds when you click on a link or when a new page is loaded, like its older versions used to play. In Internet Explorer the playing of system sounds has been disabled by default. If you like to listen to those clicking sounds as you browse through different web sites on the Internet, then you can enable them easily.

Do you switch to the Gmail page again and again to check if a new e-mail has arrived? There is good news for you, now you can enable Desktop Notifications for Gmail so that you receive a notification in your web browser when a new e-mail arrives or someone sends a chat message. It does not matter whether Gmail is open in your active browser tab or not.

When you do not have Internet connection and you start Mozilla Firefox, then Firefox automatically enters the offline mode. When the Internet connections is available, Firefox should resume the online mode status but it does not always switch to the online mode. To fix this, you can disable the offline mode in the Firefox browser so that Firefox always stays in the online mode.

For millions of people worldwide, Hotmail has been synonymous to e-mail for many years. By default, Windows Live Hotmail uses English as the main interface language. But English is not the first language for many people in the world. If you want to change this to a language you prefer, then you can do so quite easily. You can choose from over 30 different languages.