Download WhatPulse 3.0

Version 3.0 of WhatPulse has been released. WhatPulse is a program that can keep track of how much you typed, how many times you clicked the mouse and how far the mouse cursor has traveled. All these statistics are maintained by the WhatPulse client and after this data is ‘pulsed’, it is collected by WhatPulse’s central server. This way you can gain insight into how much you typed compared to other users and teams. Apart from statistics, the program does not collect any information and it is certainly not a keylogger. Our own GoT has a corner where fanatic WhatPulsers have been hanging out since 2004. Clients are available for Windows and OS X. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New

• New Design: We’ve redesigned the entire client and give it a much more modern look.
• New Tray Menu: One of the best kept secrets of the client was that you could hover over the tray icon and get a quick glance of your stats. We’ve made that an integral part of the new menu and sprung it up a lot more!
• New Design: Every single screen in the client has gotten a facelift.
• New Iconography: Let’s face it; the previous icons were from 2001. Starting 3.0, we’ll be using icons that are sleek and that you recognize.
• New Keyboard Heat Map: This is one of our favorites and yours (so we’re told) too. It looks so much better now!
• Windows: Moved from winpcap to Npcap for better Windows 10+ support, better accuracy in traffic counting, and better security.
• Signed digitally: No more ‘unidentified developer’ warnings when installing or running WhatPulse. finally.
• macOS 11 (Big Sur) Support: There are some smaller nuggets in this support, like automatically adjusting the menu icon to the dynamic color of the menu bar.
• macOS: Add new permissions manager that shows a window validating the Accessibility and Input Monitoring system settings. It also walks you through exactly how to configure these.
• macOS: Recognize Apple M1 processors. This isn’t support for them (even though the client runs on M1). More info here.
• Client Navigation: Allow META+1, META+2, etc. to navigate through the tabs in the client. On Windows and Linux (tba), the META key is CTRL. On macOS, it’s CMD.

Improved

• Database Optimizations: A lot of work went into the local database and optimizing it to be more resilient. We’ve got more ways to go, but this means less ‘critical database errors’.
• Auto Pulsing: After detecting no internet and disabling auto pulsing, try it again after 1 hour.
• Qt Upgrade: While boring, we did want to mention that we’ve upgraded to Qt 5.15.2. The reason: this solves the high screen resolution and scaling issues that 2.x had. NOTE: Reports say this doesn’t work fully, when you have scaling set to 125% or above.

Fixed

• The mouse heat map export returned a list with coordinates ‘0,0’. Not very useful. Now, it actually lists the coordinates.
• The Input History widget has switched the 7 weeks and 7 months. Not any more.