Mavericks won't launch downloaded apps

Hi all,
this is my first post, and I'm writing from my new first MacBook!
I just bought it some weeks ago, and most of the time I had problems installing new apps dowloaded from the web.
When I had to install softwares from DMG they have always been working fine - I guess, as far as I remember.
But when it's about .zip files with apps in it, they never worked.
I tried to launch them from the same folder, to move them in Application, to move them on dock..they just won't start!
They don't bounce, they don't have open, they don't give any error message...anything at all!
Do you have any clue about how to solve this?
Thanks!

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
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