From the day that that feature was released, we got a lot of questions like “What is the most popular application?”, “Which application gets the most keys?” or “Is application X used on OS Y?”

Those questions can now be answered with the applications overview! Each application has it’s own profile page, which can tell you how that application is used and how popular it is!

As always, you have full control if you appear in these overviews, as per the privacy settings. Have a look at those, if you haven’t already.

Other website updates

The website has also been updated with a few other cool things, here’s a quick overview:

• There have been general design and menu changes to enhance your browsing experience.

• Team links have been updated to a more friendly format, making it easier to share team profiles.

• You can now merge computers on your computer overview.

• Want to know how many people you referred to WhatPulse? Check out your Referrals Overview.

• We have added some cool global stats to the project numbers page.

Fun Fact: Did you know that you can earn free premium by following WhatPulse on twitter or Facebook?

Keyboard Layouts

The previous versions of the client only supported the qwerty layout in the keyboard heat map. WhatPulse 2.3 supports multiple keyboard layouts, starting with dvorak and azerty.

OS X Mavericks

The client has now full support for OS X Mavericks. This means no more annoying warning about the security settings!

Stability Improvements

Since the release of 2.0, the stability of the client has been an issue for some users. Every update since 2.0 has had improvements for those issues, and we’re glad to report that 2.3 fix all remaining random stability problems. We’ve made this the top priority and the beta period has not reported any random crash during the trials! If you are having any random issues, please upgrade to version 2.3.

Other Changes

There have been a lot of other improvements and fixes, for the entire list you can check out the change log below: WhatPulsePlease upgrade your client, there are a lot of stability fixes in this release.whatpulse.org

As always, you can download this update from our download page, or you can use the updater to get it.

• Maintenance Release (2.2.1)

• Using the Crash Reporter, we were able to collect a good deal of information about issues that some people have. Using this information, we’ve made a lot of (20+) improvements that are related to the stability of the client. Anyone having stability issues is encouraged to update!

• Windows updater fix (“file not found” error, run updater.exe manually if you have this issue

• Fix Mac OS X support for 10.7 and lower

• Fix Mac OS X updater “improperly signed” messages (update manually if you have this issue

• Hide “Re-upload applications” on Linux (not supported)

WhatPulse 2.2

After a hiatus of a few months, the Geek Window is back and better than ever. With the ease of drag and drop you can drop in any stat you want. You can also choose its color, font size and transparency. Here’s how the default looks:

Application statistics​

Per application statistics have made their way into 2.x, but there was no way to tell how much you used a certain application globally, just per computer locally. That has now changed!

There is a new option in 2.2 (“Upload application info” — currently disabled by default) which will allow you to send the local per application statistics to the website, where you can check your global application usage!

We are really excited about this feature, as this is a great way to gain insight into your total computer experience. There will be more awesome stuff coming, so be sure to enable that “Upload application info” setting!

Website Privacy

The new application statistics are presented on the website inside your profile page. To make sure you can control your own public visibility, Privacy Settings have been put into place. These privacy controls allows you to choose what information you show on your public profile. Hide a single application from public view, hide just your pulses or make your entire profile private, it’s up to you!

Other Changes

Above are the major changes for 2.2 — but that’s not all! There are a few more things we’d like to share with you:

• Added a setting to disable pulsing upon a double click of the tray icon.

• Mouse heat map now displays in proper screen ratio.

• The tray icon menu has been changed to be more useful.

• Allow applications to be ignored for input as well.

• Allow network traffic measurements without the third-party libraries (WinPcap, libpcap). NOTE: Without these libraries, the client will not pulse network traffic to the website.

• Windows: Added a crash reporter which will report any issues back to us and notify you of the problem.

• Apple OS X: Use the built-in notification center, if available.

• Fixed auto pulsing with keys; it pulsed the current keys, not the set value.

• Fixed IPv6 network traffic measurements.

• Fixed keyboard heat map counting of navigation keys (arrows, home, page up, etc) on some computers.

• General Interface and Performance optimisations, 2.2 uses less memory/CPU and the interface has a better experience.

• Improve database backups to be less intrusive (disk I/O) and be a lot faster.

You can download the new client here — or you can use the updater.

Other Website Changes

The website has been updated to complement the 2.2 release, centering mostly around the application statistics and privacy settings. But there are other things we’d like to tell you about!

• The Dynamic Images have been updated for the new 2.x statistics (yes, long overdue!).

• Favorites have been replaced with Followers. Follow a user directly from their profile page and see who is following you.

• The ability to hide specific applications from your profile.

• Fix “double push” on header buttons (My Team/My Stats).

New referral system

We’ve had a referral system in place for quite some time now, but except for the referral-ranking list, it didn’t really do anything for you. This just changed!

The referral system has just been updated to reward you with free premium services when a new account is activated that used your personal referral link. To read more, or start inviting your friends, click here.

Period Graph

Ever wanted to compare your statistics, grouped by day, week, month or even by year? We’ve added a new graph inside the premium section, which does just that!

It’s called the “Period Graph” and allows you to view your stats grouped into certain periods. Click here to check it out!

Pulses in Web API

The Web API allows developers to take data from WhatPulse and use that for their own applications. You could already retrieve data about users and (sub-)teams and now you can also get information about the latest pulses of a user or entire team. For more info, click here.

Sub-teams update

Sub-teams have been a part of the website for a little over two weeks and we’ve gotten some great feedback. One of the most things we got is that there was no easy overview of a sub-team and it’s members. Well, there is now!

Sub-teams have gotten their own page where you can easily see the members and sort them by input, bandwidth or uptime.