After awhile, Mac OS X’s alert sounds can be downright grating, as can many of the sounds you hear in Mail, iCal, and iChat. Happily, creating a custom alert sound and adding it to your system isn’t ...

A nice new feature in OS X 10.5’s iCal is the ability to create events that have an alarm attached by default—previously, you had to manually do this for every event you added to your calendar. (10.4 ...

Microsoft had re-imagined the notifications sounds in Windows 11/10. When any toast notification arrives on your PC, a default notification sound is played to let you know of the presence of an alert.