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· 2 min read
Martijn Smit

Just before the holiday season starts, we’d like to give you a small update on what’s new with WhatPulse!

Dashboard Updates We’ve added two new widgets to the **Dashboard**, which were requested the most:

  • A table widget to show your most used applications;

  • Another table widget to show your added computers (and their stats!).

The table form has also changed into a dynamic, sortable and more pretty table!

**Go to your Dashboard**

Activity Tracking Made Easy with WhatPulse Statistics

Post to Facebook The possibility to login to WhatPulse with your Facebook account has been around for a while. Now, you can also **post your stats to Facebook! Using our [Facebook integration](http://help.whatpulse.org/kb/website/posting-your-stats-to-facebook?utm_source=mailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=whatsnew-2016)**, you can (manually or periodically) let your friends know about your current geek status.

Check our Release Notes The website has been getting updates here and there. We don’t always announce them, so if you’d like to see a full update; check our release notes for the **main website and the [Dashboard](https://whatpulse.org/dashboard/changelog/?utm_source=mailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=whatsnew-2016)**.

Happy Holidays! To end with a warm note, the entire crew of WhatPulse wishes you a very happy holiday season and we hope lots of good things come your way in 2017! (We can guarantee lots of geekiness).

Stay Geeky

· One min read
Martijn Smit

The WhatPulse Dashboard is a real-time and fully customisable canvas on which you can put any WhatPulse statistic you want in all shapes and sizes; charts, graphs, tables and dynamic text. The only thing limiting your dashboards design is your imagination.

Go to your Dashboard

Getting Started

When you first visit the dashboard, it will give you a tour. Everything should be self-explanatory, but if you’d like to learn more about the dashboard, you can visit our Help Center.

Activity Tracking Made Easy with WhatPulse Statistics

Premium Extras

The dashboard is free and will always remain free for everyone. There are some widgets that need stats that only our Premium Services collect. Also with Premium you can create unlimited widgets!

Go Premium

Let us know what you like and dislike about the Dashboard. As always, if you have any questions, we are here to help.

· 2 min read
Martijn Smit

A new version of the WhatPulse client has been released on the update pipes, after doing quite a bit of plumbing on it. This latest version (2.7.1) is called: Fixes, Fixes & Fixes. It’s not just fixes though, here’s a quick overview.

New Updater on Windows

The updater on Windows could sometimes flake out and not download or update the client properly. With this new updater in place, we’re solving those problems.

Apple macOS Sierra (10.12) Support

The new macOS (previously known as OS X) Sierra is still in beta, but we’ve already made sure the client supports it.

Activity Tracking Made Easy with WhatPulse Statistics

Fixes

Now for the bulk of the changes. Don’t worry, we won’t list all, but there are a few that take notice:

  • Pulsing: Fix situations where the client could pulse every minute.

  • Make the “I” button clickable again for the window with all the facts.

  • Fix premium expiration date presentation.

  • Never allow negative application uptime (when a computers clock changes).

To check out all the changes, have a look at the release notes here. To update, you can use the Check for Updates button in your Settings tab, or you can get it here.

· One min read
Martijn Smit

The main goal of the Premium Services has always been to support and sustain the project. We’re happy to announce that with the current amount of subscribers, we’re lowering the subscription cost from 2,00 to 1,50 per month.

PayPal Subscribers

Unfortunately, PayPal does not allow us to change the rate automatically. To get the new rate, you need to unsubscribe and subscribe again.

If you’ve subscribed via Stripe; you don’t have to do anything. We’ve adjusted the rate on our end and the next time it charges, the new rate will apply.

Activity Tracking Made Easy with WhatPulse Statistics

Take a Test Drive

To celebrate this update, we created a discount code that will get you 2 months on the house. Use this code: PREMIUMPARTY0416.

Redeem Code

· One min read
Martijn Smit

Logitech Gaming Keyboard Widget

Logitech has a range of pretty nice keyboards, some with LCD screens. These screens can be used to display information and are mostly used to show things like computer performance, gaming information (kills, time remaining, etc) or a simple clock.

Using the Client API, we have put together a widget for these keyboards that display your WhatPulse statistics. Instead of explaining the what, when, how and why, we thought we’d just show you:

Logitech G19Logitech G510

How cool is that?! This widget is now available for Windows and can be downloaded on our Downloads page.

Activity Tracking Made Easy with WhatPulse Statistics

Open Source

To show how easy the Client API is to use, we’ve completely open sourced this widget. You can find the entire project on our GitHub page, including everything you need to build it. Feel free to use the code of this widget and create your own cool thing that uses the Client API. As long as you drop us a line. 😉