I have 25gb pics without video, storing in folders by year-place or year-event, and having all that stream to picasa + google online storage (cheap, 5$ per year

I have 25gb pics without video, storing in folders by year-place or year-event, and having all that stream to picasa + google online storage (cheap, 5$ per year for 21GB). This way you have all pictures online to annoy friends from any computer + picasa does the face detection, so you only have to add non-human tags for later searches (I'm usually lazy). Anyway, picasa makes it easy to find a particular photo even if you don't have it tagged, works both on mac and pc, and also flawlessly works with online storage.