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What is this chime sound that keeps playing at random intervals?

There is a chiming sound that plays at random intervals on my computer and I cannot figure out for the life of me where it is coming from. Anyone know the origin of this sound? edit: Apologies for ...
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Can Thunderbird play sounds correctly on Linux?

I am trying to configure Thunderbird to play a sound when an email arrives and although i have set it there is no sound. When I try to test a sound via the Play button, the sound is not played. Is ...
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How to disable "no speakers or headphones are plugged" in tray notification?

I recently got a new machine at work and it has Windows 7 on it. The problem is the little red dot with a cross saying that "no speakers or headphones are plugged". I know it's so, as I didn't plug ...
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Which app has a notification sound with 3 descending notes?

Brand new Windows 7 box loaded with the usual dev tools -- VS2008, Firefox, Chatzilla, Thunderbird, emacs, Pidgin, Putty, iTunes, SharpReader. Every couple of minutes, I get an audio notification ...
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Change the Mac notification sound on a per-application basis

By default on Mac OS X there is a system-wide notification sound that you can choose. This sound is applied to every application and played whenever the application outputs a beep (for instance, when ...
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Cannot re-enable sound notifications for Skype on Windows 7 SP1

I've tried to reset everything related to sounds/notifications to default configuration. My Skype on Windows 7 seems to be muted since the last time I set it to be so - i.e. when it keeps popping up ...
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On windows 7 my volume icon is missing from the system tray

So unexpectedly my volume control is missing from the system tray on Windows 7. I goto the start menu and type volume and choose "Show or hide volume (speaker) icon on the taskbar" and it's disabled ...
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