1. A paint prgram like Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop
ok, I understand. Although I thought the Wine team was either working on this or even worked?
2. An image catalogger like Thumbs Plus
Did you try fotoon? (http//fotoon.sourceforge.net/). The application is still very young, but quite nice to use. Else you have kimdaba too... although I prefer fotoon
and
3. A virtual drive encryption program like Scramdisk or E4M.
man, you never use google (www.google.com)? Apart from the usual linux Crypto API, I found this
http//www.jetico.com/linux/bcrypt-help/c_bas03.htm
For the crypto api....
http//www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO-4.html lol