A Delayed Update: Software Highlights

So I failed to keep my promise to update this site every Friday (actually, I missed by just a couple of hours). To compensate for such complacency, I’m going to dump not just one, but three (3) featured software highlights on you for today. Oh, and have I mentioned these awesome softwares can all be downloaded for free? So LET’S GO!

LemonScreen

Also known as KeyLemon, this app is basically a free face recognition tool for your Windows-based webcam-capable computer. To setup this cool piece of software, simply create or “enrol” a face model, then enter a predefined amount of time of inactivity (or simply hit ALT + L to manually lock at anytime). Once Windows is locked, Lemonscreen will automatically activate the system’s webcam and will keep an eye on the faces of everyone who comes in front of the camera. When the pre-enrolled face pattern matches yours, it will automatically unlock your computer. In the most unforeseen event of your face getting deformed to an unrecognizable extent, you may also unlock Windows by entering your user account password.

Now THAT’s a face for radio! Not the internet.

ZipGenius 6.0

Tired of WinRar and WinZip’s unending effort to have you buy their license in exchange for freedom from their annoying reminder popup? Then fret not, confused youth! For ZipGenius is finally here. According to its website, this app 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 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. I don’t exactly know what the latter part means but it sure sounds heroic.

Winsock XP Fix

This VB script application can solve the trickiest browsing and connection problems on your PC. I got to try this once when a colleague’s computer is actually connected to the network, yet he could not browse any website that is reachable by pinging. Winsock XP Fix fixes internet connectivity issues resulting from removed or corrupted registry entries, which are sometimes due to spywares or firewall removal. Running this app is equivalent to doing netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt and netsh winsock reset in the command prompt (pardon the excessive geekspeak). No installation is required. Just download the software from here, open it, click Fix, then reboot. It’s that easy to use.