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 ...

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 ...

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.