verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message koingo software inc. type 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 . contents 1 early history 2 recent history 3 community involvement 4 reviews 5 current software 5.1 applications 6 discontinued software 6.1 as koingo software 6.2 as koingo games 6.3 as pain games 7 references 8 external links early history edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit applications edit 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 . appbolish 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 . 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 edit as koingo software edit the following applications have been discontinued 7 alarm clock blaze contact keeper digital sentry display maestro 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 edit murder mystery rocket launch rocket launch ii sewer trouble as pain games edit captain comic character creator crime city movie 2000 new york blast out slime house super dice valley of the vampire references edit big announcements & kallaxa merger koingosw.com 12 december 2013 macupdate and koingo software team up to deliver airradar for free prmac.com 25 may 2009 retrieved 2010 01 16 macheist 3 bundle referral program macheist.com 13 february 2009 retrieved 2010 01 16 versiontracker launches august promotion macobserver.com 14 august 2007 retrieved 2010 01 16 huge software savings with koingo and macupdate brassheadtech.com 7 september 2008 retrieved 2010 01 16 macupdate launches new bundle viewfromthedock.com 6 december 2008 retrieved 2010 01 16 discontinued titles . koingo software . retrieved 2013 11 13 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title koingo software & oldid 665841048 categories software companies of canadacompanies based in kelownahidden categories articles needing additional references from november 2013all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 june 2015 at 03 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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