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Cheryl Poirier picks her top ten PC downloads of 2010 from among the numerous products she looked at in a full calendar year's worth of shows. She finishes off her countdown with numbers one through five of her faves for 2010. Check out last episode for numbers six through 10.

Cheryl Poirier picks her top ten PC downloads of 2010 from among the numerous products she looked at in a full calendar year's worth of shows. She begins the countdown with numbers 10 through six of her faves for 2010. Tune in next week to see her top five PC downloads for the year.

With digital cameras, it's easy to take lots and lots of photos. Snapping a photo is just the first step though. You need a way to tweak them, resize them, organize and edit them. For most amateur shutterbugs, Adobe Photoshop is overkill. This week, Doc looks at four, free photo-related programs that give you a full photo suite.

PDFs are the easiest way to ensure that your documents will look the same on any computer or device. In fact, they're the only way to guarantee that your resume, cover letter, desktop publishing or school project won't have any weird font issues, page breaks or misaligned pictures. Miss Download finds Free PDF Converter to, as the name suggests, convert all your documents, web pages and more into PDF.