http://picasa.google.com/
Free (probabally forever)
This thing does %87 of every thing I ever want to do with a digital image. Most importantly... it keeps them all ORGANIZED!! I can very quickly import batch of photos from a camera/disk, flip thru them, delete the trash, tag each image or a group of images, and sort them. Basic editing is possible. I can then publish them to a web site with a few clicks Generally I love it. Very simple very fast. The big weakness for me is weakness of the editing tools. Which brings me to Adobe Lightroom:
http://labs.adobe.com/
Lightroom absolutely KICKS ASS!! Its still a beta but its quite stable on my machine. ( P4 2.8 htz 1gig ram winXP Home SP2) This is hands down the fastest what organize your images and do all photographic editing you could ever want to. All you photography types out there: TRY IT. You will love it.
