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.

Making the switch to Linux, even part-time, can feel like a bit of a shock to the system. Doc helps to ease the transition by rounding up his 10 favorite Linux apps that are free for the download. This week, we finish the series off with numbers six through 10. Check out last week's episode for apps one through five.

If you have a stack of old videotapes gathering dust in the basement, pay attention: eventually, videotapes degrade to the point of unplayability, which means all your precious videotaped memories may disappear into eternity. In this episode of Lab Rats, Sean and Andy show you a way to convert those old videotapes into digital video files, using analogue-to-digital capture devices. Whether you use your old VCR with a capture card, or spring for ION's USB-connected VCR2PC, there's a way to get your old memories into the digital age, and the Lab Rats show you how.

Leaning a little more toward the Tech side of the Sexy Tech equation, Kate unleashes her inner geek to show us how to take our adult content on the road, how to stream it to the Xbox 360, Apple TV or other devices. She also covers off the sure-fire way to play just about any video format you're likely to encounter with VLC media player.

Handbrake lets you

rip DVDs and convert videos

into a portable-friendly format. It also makes it easy to convert videos to a format that your Xbox 360 or PS3 can read. Did we mention it's free? In short, you can turn just about any video format into just about any other video file format without the hassle or geek speak. What's not to love?

Have a video file that won't play on your computer? Or do you want to convert a video file or DVD into a format that will play on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360 and so on? It's easy to do with Handbrake!