Untill 4 weeks ago, it woke up.

There’s a new spark of energy in the development team, and this is our first release. New guy on the block is called bobL.

We are happy to announce a new version of the Windows client (1.6), the first public Mac OS X client (1.1) and a new version of the website.

Here’s a small list of the major features added:

Website:

— Overhaul of visual aspects.

— ICEPAY donation system. (phone, sms, ideal, wiretransfer, etc)

— Referral system; Gather more statistics by referring your friends.

— Knowledge Base to fit the style of the main website.

Windows: 1.6

— Optimized the data inside WhatPulse.wpw to minimize corruption.

— Store WhatPulse.wpw inside a Windows assigned place. (fixes problems with Vista)

— Brand new login window. (for existing accounts and registering accounts)

— Ability to determine the place of stats inside the geek window. (will be made easier)

— Redirected server communication through port 80 again.

— A lot of bugfixes.

’Pulse profiles’ have been renamed to ’Computers’ to make more sense.

Expect a better version release system!

With the release of 1.6, all previous versions before 1.5 (1.4.x) will be disabled. Please upgrade before 12 April, otherwise you will not be able to pulse anymore!

A word on a Linux version: I have started work on a Linux client myself, and will probaly release an alpha or beta in a few months. (for real this time. ;-))

It is possible that there are some areas of the website that do not display properly (ugly font, etc), please let me know if you find anything!

Next to the website, here are a few updates of other projects going on:

– Linux client

Staykovmarin has taken it upon him to developer us a Linux client. And, he’s almost done with it! So far the client has a GUI for most WM’s, and is ready to pulse. The ETA should be a few weeks.

– Mac client

Development of the Mac client has been restarted, and looks good so far. I should have more on this in a few weeks.

– Windows client

The Gambler and HedgeHog have picked up where I left off on the Windows client. Mostly concerning the security, and lag of 1.5. Their progress looks good so far, and I believe they will have something soon.

– Website

Well, as you see, the new design has been uploaded. With this change, I also want to involve a few more people into the development of the website.

There are -a lot- of ideas floating around for it; the main things being a total overhaul to separate design and code (using smarty templates), database redesign for speed, using caching, dynamic graphs, expanding the premium services, and a lot more.

If you are a webdeveloper (PHP/MySQL), recognize any of above terms, and want to help WhatPulse out; send me an email at wasted@whatpulse.org.

To be continued!

The final top 7 will be made available next weekend, and we will contact the winners.

The option to vote will be around for 2 weeks, after that, the winner will be decided!

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18/06/2007: There were some people trying to falsify the votes. The votes that were falsified have been reset today (you may noticed some differences), and extra security measures have been put in place.

It’s a shame that this had to happen.

I want to thank everyone who submitted a design, there are some whoppers among the submissions. Take a look: http://whatpulse.org/webdesign-contest/

The next step is a public vote, which will be made available this sunday.