With the declining popularity and the upkeep needed for the Dynamic Images, we have decided to retire the service.

This does not mean we’ll take the images offline right away, but it does mean we are not updating the service to include new functionality, or update it to support newer browsers. It currently works fine with most, but there are a few scenarios where the editor does not work. This will continue to not work.

The images will be generated until April 1st, 2016 (no joke). After that they will stop updating and the rest of the service will be disabled.

We’re currently working on a new major feature, which will more than replace the Dynamic Images feature..stay tuned! 🙂

You can know use weekly statistics in your profile and/or Twitter message. Display how much you’ve typed, clicked, downloaded, uploaded or had uptime in the last week, along with the rank changes you had on those stats.

For easy use, the weekly stats have been added to the statistics dropdown when you’re editing your profile and twitter message; just the stat you want and the stat drops in your editor.

The Weekly Update archiving feature in the Premium Services make this possible. Check it out!

Just to show you an example on how cool this can be, here’s an example:

https://twitter.com/smitmartijn/status/627425492824662016?s=20

Per-Application & NumPad in the Keyboard Heat-map

Since WhatPulse 2.0, the client has had an awesome heat-map feature which could tell you how much you’ve used certain keys at a single glance. This picture was a global picture though, accounting for usage across all applications. From now on, premium users are able to generate a keyboard heat-map on a per application basis. Analyse whether your key mappings are efficient, or just fun to look at!

The case of the missing NumPad has been solved! It has been returned to the keyboard heat-map, so you can track your NumPad usage.

Key Combinations

How often do you use ctrl+s to save something? How often do you use ctrl+alt+delete because your computer has gone crazy? Or better yet, how often do you use self made combinations to do something on your computer? How efficient are you with key combinations? If any of those questions have crossed your mind, you can now answer them with WhatPulse 2.6!

‘Today’ Stats in Geek Window

Ever wondered how much you’ve typed today and didn’t want to bother with opening the client, browse to the input tab and check? Good news! You can now add ‘today’ stats labels to the Geek Window to show the amount of keys, clicks, download and upload you’ve done so far today. Helpful if you have set a daily goal.

New Communication Methods to Website

This may sound boring to most of you, but this will make sure the communication (pulses) between your client and our website is reliable and secure before actually pulsing. This means that pulses are always consistent and that your data is only sent to our website, nowhere else. Enough with the boring stuff and move on, it’s just that this is a major improvement and we’re proud of it! 😉

and Much more!

Here’s a small highlight reel to show our favourites: the real-time network graph has now the option to show the last 5, 15, 30 and 60 minutes. You can include beta versions in the updater. The input history chart now includes options for the last 12 and 24 hours. and Much More!

To check out all the changes, have a look at the release notes below. To update, you can use the Check for Updates button in your Settings tab, or you can get it here. WhatPulseBrand new communication framework; pulsing is more reliable, secure and data-loss free!whatpulse.org

WhatPulse 2.5

There have been a lot of requests from users to be able to differentiate between your mouse buttons. Basically to see how dominant a mouse button is. We listened and integrated a ‘Mouse Button Heat-map’ into version 2.5! Of course that is not all, there are some other neat changes, like the ability to ignore network interface and a white W menu icon for the Mac OS X users with the black theme. Check out the release notes for the rest: WhatPulseEdit descriptionwhatpulse.org

To update, you can use the Check for Updates button in your Settings tab, or you can get it here.

Computer Specifications

Computers have always been around in your user profile, but with this update they have gotten their own spotlight. Starting today, each computer has it’s own page, displaying its statistics and specifications. This is an awesome way to zoom in on your stats on a per computer basis.

The specifications are currently limited to what the client detects, but we’re open to suggestions for additions in the future!

One thing to note is that this page is under control of your own privacy settings and has been turned off by default. You can turn this feature on for your computers in your Privacy Settings.

Teams in the Weekly Updates

The Weekly Updates have been a big hit (81% of you love them) and the most requested addition was weekly team updates. This has been in beta for a few weeks now, but as of today it is fully integrated.

Other Stuff

Only the most exciting features have been highlighted, but there are a few other gems in todays update, such as a new registration page and follower management. Check the full release notes for all of them here!

The WhatPulse client has lost some weight, we sent it to the gym. On Windows and OS X, it has lost around 45% of its footprint on your computer. It is also using that same 45% less in RAM memory. Some people had an issue where it could use up to 200–300MB RAM, they will see it drop to around 15–20MB. We’ve also added a cleaner for your database, as those could become rather large. The client will now by default save all the mouse clicks for your heat map of the last 3 months and delete the older ones (just the heat map clicks), which reduces the size about 80%. There’s also an option not to do this, if you don’t care about the size of your database.

There’s also something new that we’re pretty excited about. Courtesy of pointychimp, you can now add ‘Rates’ to your Geek Window. Rates are values for per second statistics, possibilities are keys, clicks, download and upload rate per second.

And these were just the highlights! There are a bunch of other changes, which you can read below in the release notes.

To update, you can use the Check for Updates button in your Settings tab, or you can get it here. WhatPulseGeek Window: Add realtime keys, clicks, download and upload per second variables called "Rates".whatpulse.org