Zip Genius
ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows® that lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive.
ZipGenius supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660 standard. This is the file compression suite you were searching for: it is free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and the excellent 7-zip. ZipGenius now can precompress executable files going to be added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.
ZipGenius is presented in two editions: STANDARD and SUITE that differs for the content they ship to user's Desktop. While the suite edition is the full setup package that includes all the optional modules of the ZipGenius project, because it is a setup layout oriented to experts and power users, the standard setup package just includes the main ZipGenius application because it is designed for most Windows® users, that just want to open/compress/decompress archives in several formats.
ZipGenius is also a perfect companion for digital photography amateurs and professionals because it can acquire also pictures from a TWAIN device, like scanners and some old digital camera, and from external drive units, then it can perform one of the following actions:
• it can compress acquired pictures into a new compressed archive;
• it can create a self-playing slideshow, so you can share your photos with your family members and friends, also if they don’t use ZipGenius.
Moreover, ZipGenius allows you to preview pictures in a compressed archives as thumbnails, because ZG file list component is fully integrated with Windows® shell.
ZipGenius offers advanced data protecton systems because it doesn’t rely only upon the default password protection system offered by certain archive types, like zip, but it can make encrypted zip files (CZIP) using the best encryption algorhythms available right now: BlowFish, TwoFish and Rijndael (AES). If people needs to share encrypted zip files with other people not using ZipGenius, they can convert standard CZIP files into executable CZIP files, that can decrypt itself so people doesn’t need to install ZipGenius to perform this simple task.
ZipGenius has a completely customizable interface through «skins» that can change the look of ZipGenius sidebar, icons in the toolbar and the font type and color of the file list.
ZipGenius can be installed in:Windows 95 OSR-2 + IE 4.x/Windows 98/98SE/ME/NT4 SP6 + IE 4.x/2000/XP/Server 2003/Visa 32 bit.
ZipGenius Standard Edition
This is the standard edition of ZipGenius.
This package is well suited for users without special needings and who don’t need not-so-rich features.
This package contains:
• ZipGenius - main application
• Scan & Zip
• ZG Password Manager
• Language files in english and italian
ZipGenius Suite Edition
This is the full edition of ZipGenius.
This package fits all needing and it is conceived for users with high expectations and for people that needs very advanced features; this package ships with additional skins and tools, that usually are available as separate downloads.
This package contains:
• ZipGenius - main application
• FTPGenius - FTP client
• Scan & Zip + ZGAlbum
• Cutter 4.5 - ZGTool that splits large files into smaller parts
• Additional skins
• ZG Password Manager
• Language files in english and italian
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