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Changing app alert tones is a great way to help you distinguish between notifications on your iPhone. That way you know if you're receiving a text, email or some other important notification without ...

Changing app alert tones is a great way to help you distinguish between notifications on your iPhone. You'll know if you're receiving a text or an email without taking your iPhone out of your pocket.

Unless you are using a beta version of iOS 5, there isn't an easy way to change the e-mail alert tone on your iPhone. I found a way that doesn't cost anything or require you to jailbreak your phone.

In addition to the expected launch of iOS5 and the latest version of OS X, Apple has a few surprises up its sleeve today. One of which is a store for buying tones to use when you receive text messages ...