As anyone working with multimedia knows, after a few large projects you begin wondering where that funny little icon went or what part of your extensive folder system holds that cool sound loop.

Enter Portfolio 5.0, an asset-management application that combines powerful indexing and display desktop features with Internet-enabling software.

Portfolio lets you embed your Digimarc watermark into your creations and associate URLs or Photoshop captions with your files. You can modify keywords and other searchable fields associated with each catalogue entry and you can also custom tag and search text within the file not associated with standard descriptions or keywords.

Searching can be as broad as looking at thumbnails in your gallery view, or as picky as searching for the item's vertical resolution in dpi. Updates from the previous version include a dockable-palettes interface and the ability to edit in record view.

Portfolio 5.0 comes bundled with the Portfolio browser and the innovative PortWeb plug-in that works in tandem with your Web-server software to serve up Portfolio search returns to your online users. Even more impressive is the "collections" (or shopping cart) capability--though it can't charge your credit card, PortWeb can keep track of your multimedia selections. If you code your Web form correctly, you can have the user check multiple images for collection at one time and add them in a batch to their shopping cart--a poor man's digital-image ordering system.