download picasa at picasa.google.com - install it & it'll scan your harddrive & find all the pictures and sort them by date taken according to folder. You can do a reasonable amount of modification with it as well - redeye reduction, adjusting saturation, etc.


I find it great for organizing photos.

Basically I've told my camera to store pictures in a different directory for each day... so when I'm copying the pictures of the camera, I rename each directory with the date and something about the pictures - the occasion or the location.

"2009_12_25 Christmas 2009"

Then I search in picasa for christmas and it'll pop up all directories with christmas in the file name.

I don't rename the individual files, that takes too long.

I keep pictures in folders by year...

so

my pictures has a folder with 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 in it and then all the pictures from that year in a folder underneath it.