Koingo Software
Encyclopedia
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 seventeen shareware
and freeware
applications, all of which are available for the Macintosh
, and nine for Windows.
With the exception of a few games, the majority of the titles are 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.
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.
, and MacHeist
.
In 2006 through part of 2007, Koingo Software gave away 10,881 copies of MacPilot Version 2 through, now-owned by C|Net, VersionTracker. The offer was extended to all users renewing or signing up for a Tech Tracker membership.
The largest joint venture undertaken was the coupling of Koingo Software's Utility Package (the combination of all of their twelve 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.
Alarm Clock Pro: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.
Amnesia:Uninstall helper tool for removing Macintosh applications, including their associated preferences, logs, support files, and caches.
Data Guardian:The successor to Password Retriever. Allows the secure storage of data into a 448-bit blowfish encrypted database.
Digital Sentry:Monitor a computer for specific events such as motion, file modifications, and power events and perform actions like taking a security screenshot and web cam picture and e-mailing it to the owner. The product is marked as an anti-theft tool.
Display Maestro:Access all available screen resolution options in Mac OS, including ones deemed unsafe by the operating system.
Image Smith:Utility which can batch rotate, scale, tint, invert, convert, level and adjust the contrast/brightness on images.
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 and MacPilot Lite: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.
Project Canvas:Presentation tool designed in similarity to HyperCard
.
RoboPostman:Mailing list management and delivery software.
Swift Share:Network share point manager for Mac OS X 10.4, to control power-user settings for both the shares as well as the Samba and Apple File Sharing server.
Christmas Super Frog:Frogger-style clone where the user must make it across a busy city street to collect dropped presents on the other side of the river.
Mystery Island II:As an undercover military operative, prevent an alien ploy to mine Earth for its remaining natural resources.
Pandora's Pests:Survive through thirty levels of bugs, in three worlds, using a variety of weapons such as a flame thrower, fly swatter, bug spray can, and tazer.
Blaze:Text editor designed for Mac OS 9.
Contact Keeper:Address book.
E-Mail Commander:Bulk e-mailer with dynamic fields per message.
File Sheriff:Allow the single and batch editing of file attributes.
Font Pilot:View advanced details for, install, and disable fonts in the system.
Gallery Designer:Drag and drop media into the program, and custom tailor the HTML output of a gallery.
Magick 8 Ball:Simple magic eight ball replica.
Mystery Island:Millionaire James Harvey has died and his son inherited it all. Now he is missing. It is your job to solve the mystery!
Password Retriever:Database for storing passwords securely.
PTE:Periodic Table of Elements with information on each element.
Slideshow Magic:Drag and drop images into the program, add effects, titles, and music to create a movie slideshow.
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...
and freeware
Freeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
applications, all of which are available for the Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
, and nine for Windows.
With the exception of a few games, the majority of the titles are 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 HyperCardHyperCard
HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written...
adventure games.
In 1999, the business began also developing products in REALbasic
REALbasic
Realbasic is the object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Real Studio, a programming environment, developed and commercially marketed by Real Software, Inc of Austin, Texas for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, 32-bit x86 Linux and the web.- Language features :RB is a strongly...
. 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.
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 and discounts with sites like MacZot, MacUpdateMacUpdate
MacUpdate is an Apple Macintosh and iPhone software download website, started in the late-1990s. As of summer 2009, it is the 114th fastest growing privately owned company in the USA, according to Inc. Magazine, which lists MacUpdate as the #1 fastest growing company in Michigan, and the 5th...
, and MacHeist
MacHeist
MacHeist is a website that resells Mac OS X shareware. The site has become known for its marketing tactics. These tactics include challenges that entitle successful customers to free software licenses and/or discounts, as well as the concept of selling software in a bundle that increases in size...
.
In 2006 through part of 2007, Koingo Software gave away 10,881 copies of MacPilot Version 2 through, now-owned by C|Net, VersionTracker. The offer was extended to all users renewing or signing up for a Tech Tracker membership.
The largest joint venture undertaken was the coupling of Koingo Software's Utility Package (the combination of all of their twelve 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.
Major Media 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
- C|Net: Alarm Clock Pro Editor's Review
- C|Net: MacPilot Editor's Review
- The Spinning Beachball: MacPilot Review
Current Software
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 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.
Amnesia:Uninstall helper tool for removing Macintosh applications, including their associated preferences, logs, support files, and caches.
Data Guardian:The successor to Password Retriever. Allows the secure storage of data into a 448-bit blowfish encrypted database.
Digital Sentry:Monitor a computer for specific events such as motion, file modifications, and power events and perform actions like taking a security screenshot and web cam picture and e-mailing it to the owner. The product is marked as an anti-theft tool.
Display Maestro:Access all available screen resolution options in Mac OS, including ones deemed unsafe by the operating system.
Image Smith:Utility which can batch rotate, scale, tint, invert, convert, level and adjust the contrast/brightness on images.
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 and MacPilot Lite: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.
Project Canvas:Presentation tool designed in similarity to HyperCard
HyperCard
HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written...
.
RoboPostman:Mailing list management and delivery software.
Swift Share:Network share point manager for Mac OS X 10.4, to control power-user settings for both the shares as well as the Samba and Apple File Sharing server.
Current Games
Christmas Crisis:Fly Santa's sleigh over the city dropping presents down chimneys.Christmas Super Frog:Frogger-style clone where the user must make it across a busy city street to collect dropped presents on the other side of the river.
Mystery Island II:As an undercover military operative, prevent an alien ploy to mine Earth for its remaining natural resources.
Pandora's Pests:Survive through thirty levels of bugs, in three worlds, using a variety of weapons such as a flame thrower, fly swatter, bug spray can, and tazer.
Discontinued products
Alarm Clock 1.x - 3.x:A simple computer alarm clock.Blaze:Text editor designed for Mac OS 9.
Contact Keeper:Address book.
E-Mail Commander:Bulk e-mailer with dynamic fields per message.
File Sheriff:Allow the single and batch editing of file attributes.
Font Pilot:View advanced details for, install, and disable fonts in the system.
Gallery Designer:Drag and drop media into the program, and custom tailor the HTML output of a gallery.
Magick 8 Ball:Simple magic eight ball replica.
Mystery Island:Millionaire James Harvey has died and his son inherited it all. Now he is missing. It is your job to solve the mystery!
Password Retriever:Database for storing passwords securely.
PTE:Periodic Table of Elements with information on each element.
Slideshow Magic:Drag and drop images into the program, add effects, titles, and music to create a movie slideshow.
Discontinued products under Koingo Games
- Murder Mystery
- Rocket Launch
- Rocket Launch II
- Sewer Trouble
Discontinued products under Pain Games
- Captain Comic
- Character Creator
- Crime City
- Movie 2000
- New York Blast Out
- Slime House
- Super Dice
- Valley of the Vampire