Desktop Notes
Desktop Notes is a program that will allow you to post notes on your Windows desktop. These notes won't intefere with your other activities on your PC cause they stick to the desktop. The fact that you can use various pictures as a background and special fonts that are supplied along with the... See for yourselves. ... The program configuration and the creation process itself are very simple. ... It is really faster than getting hold of a pen and scribbling a note.
http://www.intelore.com/desknotes/desktop_notes.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Civil War Quotes, Notes, and Facts
Full of quotes, notes, and facts of the Civil War. Has Text-To-Speech technology, this software talks and will read the Civil War information to you in a human-sounding computer generated voice. Learn about the Civil War. View Civil War pictures. Has three entire books about the Civil War. ... Civil War pictures are shown along with the quotes, or notes and facts. ... You can read, listen to, or print out the Civil War quotes, notes, facts, and library books. ... Through an animated character (Merlin - the Civil War Reading Wizard) who speaks to you in a human-sounding computer generated...
http://nellaware.fileburst.com/cwqnf10.exe - 10Mb - Download - Screenshot

Note Studio for Windows
Let's say you make a note of something - a fact, a figure, anything. Regardless of where it is stored, if that information is not available to you when you absolutely need it, it may as well not exist. Note Studio aims squarely at addressing this issue. ... People make more notes, and their notes are actually useful. ... This allows simple, logical navigation through your notes. ... Customers report that it is actually fun to make notes. ... With Note Studio, the priority is on getting the notes down quickly.
http://www.dogmelon.com.au/downloads/NoteStudioPCDemo.exe - 10Mb - Download - Screenshot

Note Studio for Mac OSX
Let's say you make a note of something - a fact, a figure, anything. Regardless of where it is stored, if that information is not available to you when you absolutely need it, it may as well not exist. Note Studio aims squarely at addressing this issue. ... People make more notes, and their notes are actually useful. ... This allows simple, logical navigation through your notes. ... Customers report that it is actually fun to make notes. ... With Note Studio, the priority is on getting the notes down quickly.
http://www.dogmelon.com.au/downloads/0/NoteStudioMacDemo.dmg - 10Mb - Download - Screenshot

Ear and Memory Training
"Musical Dictation" function: The software behaves like a professor of music. At the beginning of each exercise, the software plays a preview of the series of notes that you'll have to recognize, while it shows them (on the screen) on the guitar's neck or on the piano keybord. ... For each series of 15 notes out of 16 notes recognized successfully, the software increases the level of difficulty by adding one additional octave to the series of sounds you need to recognize. ... To each series of notes successfully memorized, the program will add an additional note which lengthens the melody...
http://www.guitar-online.com/demos/data/ear-training-demo.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Snip-Its
You know those yellow "sticky notes" that we all use to jot down notes and reminders? Or the typical 3 by 5 index cards? We use them all the time -- placing them in books, stuffing them into shirt pockets, wallets, tacking them to computer screens, placing them on telephones, filing them in a... It's ideal for writers wanting to gather facts, bibliographical entries, notes quotations and even first drafts. ... But there is a limit to what you can do with a sticky notes and index cards. ... If you are a writer, you can use Snip-Its to store notes, and create the outline to your literary work.
http://www.pcshareware.com/programs/snipits10.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

FotoTagger
FotoTagger is a free software tool for annotating images quickly and easily. Isn't it a pity when we know nothing about people and moments grabbed on family pictures? How can we convey amazing stories about sights on travel photos? How to share more facts hidden behind masterpieces of great... Place movable easy-to-hide notes directly over a picture to identify people and places. ... Add explanation notes. ... Annotations do not change an original image so moving and sharing files keep annotations intact.
http://www.fototagger.com/download/FotoTagger-1.6.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

e-Xpressor MIDI Voicer
The program converts voice into timbres of any MIDI instruments, creates original ring tones for mobile phones, creates musical pieces by ear, recognizes notes of the vocal melody. A live or recorded performance is converted to MIDI in real-time. MIDI Voicer is a veritable musical instrument... MIDI Voicer also identifies notes of the sung tune. ... MIDI Voicer "feels", recognizes and then plays back all the nuances of voice motion, all the mistakes and false notes. ... All those facts make the program extremely useful for vocal education.
http://www.e-xpressor.com/expr.demo/midivoicer_v1.0.exe - 982b - Download - Screenshot

7Canaries Professional
7Canaries Professional performs automated recognition of polyphonic music, stored in MP1, MP2, MP3, MPP, MPA, AIF, SND, AU, WAVE formats as well as audio CD tracks. In real-time mode it instantly converts music coming through the microphone or line input of your computer into a MIDI sequence. ... Detected notes can be either recorded or played in real time, or both. ... A number of filtering options allows to leave aside odd notes. ... Polyphonic method transcribes several voices. ... Thus you can change instruments in real-time, for example, play the guitar and get piano sound.
http://audioto.com/download/7canaries_pro.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

7Canaries Standard
7Canaries Standard performs automated recognition of polyphonic music, stored in MP1, MP2, MP3, MPP, MPA, AIF, SND, AU, WAVE formats as well as audio CD tracks. In real-time mode it instantly converts music coming through the microphone or line input of your computer into a MIDI sequence. ... Detected notes can be either recorded or played in real time, or both. ... A number of filtering options allows to leave aside odd notes. ... Polyphonic method transcribes several voices. ... Thus you can change instruments in real-time, for example, play the guitar and get piano sound.
http://audioto.com/download/7canaries_std.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot