Koingo Software, established in 1994, is a Canadian corporation that designs and distributes software for both Macintosh and Windows. Presently, the business develops a mix of 8

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and freeware applications, most of which are available for the Macintosh and Windows. Except for a few games in the past, the majority of the titles have been geared towards personal time, data, security, and

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such as for home inventory, scheduling, password and data storage, and digital anti-theft monitoring and protection.

Early history

Koingo Software originally branded its productions under both the Koingo Games and Pain Games titles. These products included titles such as Rocket Launch, Sewer Trouble, and Valley of the Vampire which were black and white HyperCard adventure games. In 1999, the business began also developing products in REALbasic. These new products, such as Alarm Clock Pro (a time management utility), Password Retriever (password database utility), and Contact Keeper (simple address book), not being games, the organization rebranded itself as Koingo Software.

Recent history

In December 2012, Koingo's founder took a leave of absence from the company for five years to pursue other business ventures such as starting his online travel blog on

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"adventurejosh.ca" and adventurejosh.com. Upon his return, Koingo gave away a new MacBook to one of the adventurejosh.ca followers on March 1, 2017. With his return, Koingo shortly thereafter released a massive overhaul of their flagship application MacPilot, bringing it to version 9, with promises of doing the same for MacCleanse.

Community involvement

Koingo Software has played an active role in the Macintosh community by regularly donating licenses to

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s, and participating in third-party giveaways and discounts with sites like MacZot and

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. In 2006 through part of 2007, Koingo Software gave away 10,881 copies of their MacPilot application to all users renewing or signing up for a VersionTracker membership. The largest joint venture undertaken was the coupling of Koingo Software's Utility Package (the combination of all 12 of their software titles at the time) with MacUpdate's 2008 back-to-school bundle. Then later that year, the businesses offered Koingo Software's MacPilot in the 2008 Christmas Holiday Bundle.

Reviews

MacWorld's Editor's Choice: Alarm Clock Pro

MacWorld Editor's Review: MacPilot

MacWorld Editor's Review: AirRadar

MacAddict Magazine Feature for Alarm Clock Pro, April 2004 Issue

The Spinning Beachball: MacPilot Review

Current software

Applications

* AirRadar :Scan for wireless networks, and provides detailed information such as encryption type, signal, noise, ad-hoc status, pbcc flag, channel, MAC address, and beacon interval. * Alarm Clock Pro :Schedule tasks such as playing multimedia files (including via

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), running system scripts, composing and sending e-mails, pinging web URLs, sending text messages and taking web cam and screenshots on a schedule or by timer. * Data Guardian :The successor to Password Retriever. Allows the secure storage of data into a 448-bit blowfish encrypted database. * Display Maestro :Access all display resolutions and bit depths * Librarian Pro :Interacting with Amazon, automatically downloads product details based on UPC or ISBN to create a home inventory. Items can be marked out as "borrowed by" entered users. * MacCleanse :Erases caches, logs, recent file histories, and browser histories. * MacPilot :Presents a graphical front-end for many advanced UNIX commands; additionally, provides the same interface for tweaking hundreds of hidden preferences available in Mac OS X.

Discontinued software

As Koingo Software

The following applications have been discontinued: * Alarm Clock * Blaze * Contact Keeper * Digital Sentry * E-Mail Commander * File Sheriff * Font Pilot * Gallery Designer * MacPilot Lite * Magick 8 Ball * Mystery Island * Password Retriever * PTE * Robo Postman * Swift Share * Slideshow Magic

As Koingo Games

* Murder Mystery * Rocket Launch * Rocket Launch II * Sewer Trouble

As Pain Games

* Captain Comic * Character Creator * Crime City * Movie 2000 * New York Blast Out * Slime House * Super Dice * Valley of the Vampire

References

External links

*{{Official website, www.koingosw.com Software companies of Canada Companies based in British Columbia 1994 establishments in British Columbia Canadian companies established in 1994 Software companies established in 1994 Free software companies Macintosh software companies