cheap or inexpensive software for photographs

I've been using Thumbs Plus for years as my basic program. It allows me to easily catalogue things and do some basic processing. I've been using it for around 20 years, since version one..
http://www.cerious.com/thumbnails.shtml

I was looking at some other programs like Qimage
http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/index.html

and Focus Magic.
http://www.focusmagic.com/index.html

Does anyone here know anything about them? They look pretty interesting.