OS X includes a number of built-in alert sounds—you can choose which one you’d like to use as your alert sound on the Sound Effects tab of the Sounds System Preferences panel. Today, though, I’ll show ...

106409: Mac OS X 10.0: How to Add an Alert Sound Lynn Barton recently sent us an email describing how to add a custom alert sound in Mac OS X. Coincidentally, the same procedure is described in this ...

If you own an Amazon Echo, there’s a chance that just reading that word triggered a pavlovian “bimm” in your mind. Or, if you have the wake sound disabled, maybe it’s the timer alarm that makes you ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Alongside the dozens of new iPhone features found in iOS 17, Apple also took the opportunity to update the collection of ringtone and alert sounds. There’s a bunch of new tones to choose from in the ...

I wanted my Android phone to play a sound loud enough to let me know when it started and stopped charging. The default options weren’t good, so I went the third-party way to set things up on my device ...