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How To Set A Custom Alarm Sound On Your iPhone

You can use any sound you want for an iPhone alarm, and here's how to set it up.

There's an art to picking a good alarm sound. It can't be too pleasant that you happily listen to it for a few minutes instead of doing what you're supposed to. Nor can it be too annoying, as that can put you in a bad mood as you scramble out of bed to shut it off (you do keep your iPhone out of reach while you're in bed, right?). Some of the default ringtones and alarm sounds on iOS can veer in the latter direction, unfortunately. Thankfully, it's relatively easy to set up a custom alarm sound on an iPhone.

If you'd like to use a certain song, the easiest way to do that is to be an Apple Music subscriber. The service has more than 100 million songs and you can...

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Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

Time for the Clone Wars remake OPINION In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-prem Office and Windows licenses, and made a fairy tale

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Critical thinking - why AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle find themselves under new regulatory oversight at the behest of the UK Government

As of this morning, the UK has four new Critical Third Parties (CTPs) as Amazon Web Service (AWS). Google, Microsoft, and Oracle fall under direct regulatory oversight from financial authorities in Britain, a move taken with the intent of strengthening the resilience of key financial services. CTPs are technology and

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Progress Prompts ShareFile Storage Zone Controller Shutdown Amid Security Concerns

Enterprise software giant Progress Software on Friday prompted ShareFile customers to shut down Storage Zone Controller servers amid security concerns. A Storage Zone Controller provides ShareFile customers with private data storage, either on-premises or on a third-party storage system, that is protected with an application-specific password and is self-managed. On

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Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights

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Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

Critical thinking - why AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle find themselves under new regulatory oversight at the behest of the UK Government

Progress Prompts ShareFile Storage Zone Controller Shutdown Amid Security Concerns

Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights