Er is kort geleden een update voor versie 2.0 van WhatPulse verschenen. WhatPulse is een klein programma dat kan bijhouden hoeveel je hebt getypt, hoeveel keer je met de muis hebt geklikt en welke afstand de muiscursor heeft afgelegd. Al deze statistieken worden door de WhatPulse-client bijgehouden en nadat deze gegevens 'gepulst' zijn, worden ze door de centrale server van WP verzameld. Op deze manier kun je inzicht krijgen in hoeveel je hebt getypt in vergelijking met andere gebruikers en teams. Afgezien van statistieken verzamelt het programma geen informatie en het is dan ook zeker geen keylogger. Op ons eigen GoT is een hoekje te vinden waar fanatieke WhatPulsers al sinds 2004 uithangen. Clients zijn beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en OS X. Het changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
EnhancementFix
- Add an option to disable automated pulse notifications
- Blink tray icon on keyboard or mouse option (plus an option to disable that)
- Launch Geek Window on startup when it was open upon closing the client
- Update statistics every second when Geek Window is open
- Don't show tray notifications when a full screen application is running
- Add the ability to auto detect the system proxy server
- Add total account overview (totals + ranks) to account tab
- Only use database file every 5 minutes, cache everything else. This brings disk I/O usage to a near standstill.
- Make scheduled backups of databases and fall back on backups if main database file gets corrupted
Windows
- Improve accuracy of measuring both uptime and bandwidth
- Count bandwidth from and to a proxy server in unpulsed stats (was excluded in previous clients)
- Show more accurate network usage on interface overview
- Don't check for updates or internet IP when "Work Offline" is enabled
- The 'Year' option in the keyboard + mouse heat map was not the last 12 months, but the current year
- Extra precautions for double pulsing
OS X
- Enhancement: Don't show a icon in the taskbar for the Geek Window
- Enhancement: Improve input (keys/clicks) hooks for full screen or heavy load applications (games)
- Enhancement: Count unknown (media) keys.
- Fix: The client crashed when certain applications were running
Linux
- Enhancement: Replace the black menu icon with a more fitting one.
- Enhancement: Optimize detection of network interfaces (2500% quicker)
- Enhancement: Optimize detection of running processes (120% quicker)
- Fix: Detect when computer goes into sleep mode and release lock on bpf device(s). This will make sure OSX won't need to create extra bpf devices, which in turn will make the client ask you for your password to reset permissions on these new files.
If you're wondering where 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 went, they were released on the forums. ;-)
- Enhancement: Multiple CPU optimizations for better performance
- Enhancement: Optimize application bandwidth measuring (less CPU)
- Fix: Some network interfaces were not detected if certain system files did not exist