If you have not read or heard about WhatPulse 2.0 yet, please check out this announcement!

Last week was the release of WhatPulse 2.0, which brought a lot of new exciting features. Because 2.0 was built from the ground up, there were likely to be some issues. This maintenance release addresses these. You can find a change log below:

• NEW: Add some critical keys to keyboard heatmap.

• FIX: Unable to set a proxy when logging in.

• FIX: The heatmaps do not update ‘today’ after a manual reset.

• FIX: Windows closes input hooks when putting your CPU under load (games), which makes it stop counting keys and clicks.

• FIX: Random crashes when using a wireless network connection.

• FIX: Random crashes when using sleep or hibernation mode.

• FIX: Auto pulsing is disabled too quickly when detecting pulse errors.

• FIX: The client does not see certain USB network adapters.

• FIX: Computer crashes (BSOD) can cause the client to ask for a login, next start up.

• FIX: Only show active metrics in tooltip (icon hover).

• FIX: Allow a password reset without knowing the old password.

• FIX: Several optimisations for speed and memory management.

Happy 2013 and we hope you have a safe and awesome new year’s eve!

WhatPulse 2.0 is currently available for download here: http://whatpulse.org/downloads/

Both the software and website have been rewritten from the ground up to lay the foundation for more exciting features. To begin with, we have added the two most requested features over the last few years; Network and Uptime tracking.

That’s right, WhatPulse can now measure your input (keyboard & mouse), network and uptime usage!

Network usage can be seen on application level (“How much does Dropbox use?”) and even up to how much you download and upload to the countries in the world.

Uptime usage measures how long you have been running WhatPulse on your computer and how often you use certain applications.

Right now only the accumulations of these statistics are sent to the website and you (as always) have complete control over what you make public.

One other thing was extremely important for us during the development of the new client; uniformity. We’ve made sure that the client looks and acts the same on all platforms. (Windows, Linux, Mac OS)

Because so much has changed between the previous release and WhatPulse 2.0, we will be posting several blog posts on the website explaining several features in depth. It’s just too much to cover in this general announcement.

We would like to thank you for your support during this development period, for all your feedback and everyone involved with the beta. WhatPulse is going to keep growing and getting new features, stay tuned!

Bug #204: Some keys are defined as ’Unknown’

Bug #210: Popup spam when offline

Bug #218: Counting clicks when option is turned off

Bug #70: Geek window transparency; immovable window

Mobile Stats Web Application (MSWA)

After having an iPhone only stats application for a while, we decided to create an universal stats application that can be used on iOS, Android, Blackberry…basically any mobile device with a browser.

You can find it here: http://whatpulse.org/mobilestats/

Most platforms can put web apps on the home screen, so you can create a shortcut. There are plans to extend this application to sense different screen sizes (phones vs. tablets), to display more information on devices which have bigger screens.

Get it at the downloads section.