I’ve found a way to keep track of all my digital photos. Google purchased a company called Picasa and made the program available for free. You can download a copy at
Picasa scans your entire hard drive and creates thumbnails off all the pictures it finds. Each picture is listed using the folder as a category. Within Picasa you can move your pictures to other folders, give each picture a caption, do simple editing (rotate, crop, remove red-eyes).
I have a lot of pictures (thousands), so the scanner took a few hours to create the index. Once I had that, it’s a dream. It not only does Picasa index all your JPG, GIF, TIF and BMP files, it also indexes all your movie clips. Using a scroll bar on the right side of the program, it is simple to browse through hundreds of photos in just a few minutes.