Koingo Software

Koingo Software, Inc.
Corporation
Industry Computer software
Founded 1994
Headquarters Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Key people
 Josh
Products AirRadar
AppBolish
Alarm Clock Pro
Data Guardian
Librarian Pro
MacCleanse
MacPilot
Number of employees
 3
Website Official website

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 7 shareware 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 information management 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

Koingo has seen ownership change numerous times over the years after Josh (1994–2010). However, after a five-year sabbatical from software development and contemplating early retirement, Josh was welcomed back to Koingo to take the reins as full-time CEO as of January 2015. The previous owners continued to serve as an administrative advisors until their departure at the end of February 2015. During this transition, Koingo also acquired Calgary, Canada-based business Kallaxa Software and added their software products to its line-up.[1]

Community involvement

Koingo Software has played an active role in the Macintosh community by regularly donating licenses to Macintosh User Groups, and participating in third-party giveaways[2] and discounts with sites like MacZot and MacHeist.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5] Then later that year, the businesses offered Koingo Software's MacPilot in the 2008 Christmas Holiday Bundle.[6]

Reviews

Current software

Applications

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.
Schedule tasks such as playing multimedia files (including via iTunes), 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.
Uninstall helper tool for removing Macintosh applications, including their associated preferences, logs, support files, and caches.
The successor to Password Retriever. Allows the secure storage of data into a 448-bit blowfish encrypted database.
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.
Erases caches, logs, recent file histories, and browser histories.
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:[7]

As Koingo Games

As Pain Games

References

  1. ↑ Big Announcements & Kallaxa Merger, KoingoSW.com, 12 December 2013
  2. ↑ MacUpdate and Koingo Software Team Up to Deliver AirRadar for Free, PRMac.com, 25 May 2009, retrieved 2010-01-16
  3. ↑ MacHeist 3 Bundle Referral Program, MacHeist.com, 13 February 2009, retrieved 2010-01-16
  4. ↑ VersionTracker Launches August Promotion, MacObserver.com, 14 August 2007, retrieved 2010-01-16
  5. ↑ Huge software savings with Koingo and MacUpdate, BrassHeadTech.com, 7 September 2008, retrieved 2010-01-16
  6. ↑ MacUpdate launches new bundle, ViewFromTheDock.com, 6 December 2008, retrieved 2010-01-16
  7. ↑ "Discontinued Titles". Koingo Software. Retrieved 2013-11-13.

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