Software: Picasa 2 - Great Photo Management Software for PC (and it’s free)
This is one of the best (if not the best) software to manage digital photograph collections. It has great built-in catalog features, as well as full-array of photo touch-up and editing. Even though it started out (in version 1) as an iPhoto wanna-be for Windows, version 2 now left iPhoto in the dust in term of features, functionality and ease-of-use. It also works well with the photo-publishing add-on called “hello” that allows you to pubhish photo on a weblog with just a couple clicks.
Best of all, Picasa 2 it is free. http://www.picasa.com.