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 have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

WhatsApp alerts you to all incoming messages from your contacts and groups using the same notification sound. Even though this sound is distinctive enough to tell you when a notification is from ...

The Google Clock application doesn’t often gain new features, but a quiet update has added the ability for you to record your own custom alarm sounds. Rolling out via a server-side update to Google ...

Cam has worked in online tech reporting since 2010 and has a BA (Hons) degree in TV and Film Production. His responsibilities at Pocket-lint include planning our video strategy, then producing and ...

You might occasionally swap around the wallpaper on your smartphone, but do you give much thought to the bleeps and buzzing sounds that your handset makes—they’re just as customizable as any other ...