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 ...

You can change notification sounds for emails and calendar events directly within the new Outlook app for Windows. In classic Outlook, you can choose whether to play a sound when a new email arrives.

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 ...

All will agree when I say some emails really are more important than others. Your inbox over time gets cluttered with all sorts of emails be it from your friends or from your boss that requires ...

The sound you choose to notify you when you get a text, call, or social media update is important since it's what you'll primarily need to listen for to know when someone is trying to contact you.