Hi, for large numbers of images, jpeg and RAW, you'll want to look at either:
Adobe (Photoshop) Lightroom or
Apple Aperture

Lightroom and Aperture are professional level - but suitable for all of us. They are tools which allow for filing, managing, searching for and editing our images. Both are amazing products, well worth the cost ($299 Lightroom, $199 Aperture). It's a personal choice, usually based on your photo editing software (or RAW converter if you are shooting RAW files).

Also, If you don't already have editing software - either of these products will give you most of the editing capacity that you may ever need.

Here are the links:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/?sdid=DKRZV
http://www.apple.com/aperture/

Have fun!
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PIcasa is a great solution, and it's free up to 1G! Thereafter, it's $1.25 to $2 per gig.
Source(s):
http://picasa.google.com/

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For software to manage photos, I agree with the folks here and really like Picasa. You can tag and search easily - which allows you to sort and cross reference. If you're looking for an online solution though, I much prefer Flickr. It's $25 per year for unlimited uploads, which allows you to backup your photos online as well as easily share with whomever you please.

I actually use Picasa to go through my photos and edit/enhance them on my computer. I can tag them and add descriptions on my computer through Picasa. Then I upload them to Flickr to store and share - and all the info I've added through Picasa is automatically uploaded to Flickr too.
Source(s):
http://picasa.google.com
http://flickr.com

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