Best Photo Managing Software

I'm getting pissed off with Windows 7 Photo Viewer.

I need some program to help organize all my photos.

I've been using Picassa, but haven't really liked it enough to understand what all it can do.

All I use it for is basically to import all my pics from my computer into it, then let it do my backups to my external drive. I just recently used it to find all the duplicate pic files on my hard drive and it worked ok for that. But beyond that, I have no clue of its potential.

I organize my pics in folders like "2013" Inside that folder i'll have mini files labeled "4-12-13" and have all the pics from the day in that file. Then i might break down the pics inside that folder to mini folders labeled "Boat Pics" and "Car Pics" or whatever the subject of the shoot was that time.

I would love a program that could organize the pics by date taken and sort of batch organize them in folders based on that. It would be awesome if I could do backups with the same software as well. No editing is needed with this software, I have Photoshop for that. I just need something simple and easy to organize and backup all my pics.

Maybe i'm asking too much. I wouldnt mind if I had to one program to batch the files into folders, then another program to organize them all. Maybe I could still keep Picassa for backups and find some other program to batch all the pics....I dont know.

Any options? Free is best...

 

Lightroom

or Adobe Bridge

 

Google software called

Data Max Manager. It has a folder layout and renaming setup in it, works wonders for me at my Job. We have used it on over 70k images so far. About 600 a day.

 

I have bridge.

Can I do backups with bridge?