Box of memories  By Adam Turner May 26, 2005  Every family has a
shoebox of old photos in which, sadly, they can no longer match
names to the faces.  With the explosion in digital photography
the problem is only going to get worse unless people take steps
to organise their digital photo libraries.  Photo-cataloguing
applications can often detect when you connect a digital camera,
memory card, mobile phone or portable storage device to your
computer. They can automatically copy the images into your My
Pictures folder and then delete the originals so you can start
shooting again. Since many digital cameras can now capture video
as well, cataloguing software can usually also import video and
audio recordings.  Once your images have been imported into the
digital library, you can label them according to, for example,
who is in them or where they were taken. This makes it easy to
sort them on the screen, for example, by asking it to only
display images of your mum, while the images stay in their
original folders.