Cheryl Poirier picks her top ten Mac downloads of 2010 from among the numerous products she looked at in a full calendar year's worth of shows. She finishes the countdown with numbers one through five of the best Mac software of 2010.

Keep a map of your mind, trace the flow of an idea and generally digitally document your brainstorming sessions with MindNode. This simple mind mapping software can tie in with the like-named iPhone app so you can jot down ideas as they occur to you as opposed to sitting at your computer and forcing the process.