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You Voted us Kings

eddie — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:59:21 +0000

So, let’s have a quick summary on what happened since NTK was officially launched (9½ week ago but who’s counting).

1- There are just about 33,400 results in Google mentioning NTK, including some heavy caliber tech blogs
2- 36,000 users downloaded it (that’s ~540 each day, and growing)
3- NTK is ranked #6 in Mozilla’s favorites under tabs section
4- Lebron went on an early vacation. again. god.

but now for the important stuff – what the people had to say:

A lot of Linux freaks, freaked out on us for be incompat. well, we got this fixed with a little help from a volunteering user. cheers, amigo.

Same goes for Mac. now we’re Mac oriented.

Almost all comments (not complaints – comments) included the expression “customize my own”. Here’s a real giant NTK leap: almost everything in your NewTabKing dashboard is customizable. You can choose your background image (or choose not to have one at all). You can pick your own application shortcuts. You can select the number of results that you get in your “Most Used Website” and in “Recently Closed Tabs”. View your “black listed” sites, and hand-pick some of them back to life. You can even set your own title. My title says something nasty about a huge company that starts with a “G” but that’s just my secret revenge.

Plus, we’ve added some other neat stuff, like:

Suggested sites – lets you see sites that are similar to the ones you’re usually visiting. Hey, perhaps you’ll find hidden treasures in the suggested sites list.

Auto-completion in your search bar – You know FireFox? same idea. only bigger.

Shorter loading time – No, I’m saying this for REAL. Try it yourself.

So where are all these improvements? Good question. We are waiting for the Mozilla testing crew to approve our new version 2, which is currently only available in their testing queue

Truth is, we didn’t think it would take that long… but guess what – you can help! If you download, try it, and post a comment in our mozilla add-ons section, they say it quickens the process. Well, if you feel like it. no pressure.

We’ve gone a few miles since the April 9th release, but as far as we’re concerned the journey has just begun. We hope NewTabKing will become the best interface for new born tabs around the globe.

- Adam and Eddie

Boss is here, everyone look busy

eddie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:43:26 +0000

Ever doze off during work and find yourself googling instead of being productive? and how about your superior taking over your seat and working on your Firefox screen? Could be embaressing, especially if he found out you were surfing that site…

No worries, amigo. At New Tab King every site can be erased and what appears as a site in your history won’t be revealed to a soul.

Also, a little bird at NTK told me that soon there will be a presentation mode, displaying IVY league sites so that when opeing a new tab everyone will think you’re a big shot, surfing first class sites.

We told you it’s addictive.

NTK team

Warning: addictive Firefox tabs add-on

eddie — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:46:40 +0000

Here’s a problem: we often visit a website over and over again. Typing the same old address more than once is quite a drag. One option, is going to the history tab and try tracking your surfing whereabouts. Personally, I haven’t done that since browsing Netscape in the late 90′s… History is a flat list of sites. Often, that is just too much of a disordered blobs of data. Wouldn’t it be great to have an analytical view of my most visited sites and my bookmarks?

Problem solved!

That’s exactly the idea behind New Tab King for Firefox. In NTK, you get all your frequently visited sites lined up from most to least visited in the last 30 days right in the context you need it – on a new browser tab. This way you can easily locate all your recently visited sites and access them at a click.

Another important item is a display of your bookmarked sites. This way you can remove the bookmark menu and save some precious browser area.

Now don’t say we didn’t warn you: New Tab King for Firefox is addictive!

NTK team