Don’t you always wondered how many keys and mouse clicks you do each day? Every thought if you typed more keys than your friends? With WhatPulse, it’s easy to find out!
WhatPulse is a multi-platform program that monitors how many keys your press, and how much you click/move your mouse. It is NOT a keylogger, as your computer protection software might be suspicious about this.
The process is extremely simple.
- Sign up at WhatPulse.org
- Download the program.
- Pulse when ever you feel like it!
You can either set it to auto-pulse, or pulse whenever you feel like it. When you pulse, the data is sent to their servers, and you can see your statistics on your personalised user page.
An example user page: http://whatpulse.org/stats/users/275246/
WhatPulse explain how their service works as follows:
WhatPulse opens a so-called “keyhook” when it’s booted, which listens to incoming Windows messages about the keyboard, the keyhook sends these messages to the program itself, and the program first determines if the key pressed is a proper key (Every standard keyboards’ keys are counted) and then simply does PreviousKeyCount + 1.
Pulsing: When you “pulse”, you’re actually sending your keycounts in the program to the server along with other information about your Account, so the server can decide where to put the keycount. If the pulse goes according to plan, the server sends back an “OK”, and the client’s keycount is reset to 0 (zero), and your previous keys are added to your profile in the server database! :)
Unfortunately, the program does not work well with Windows 7, it cannot record the mouse clicks properly.
If you are wanting to keep track of just how much work you do on your computer, WhatPulse helps you analyse and view all of this, even ranking you against other users of the service in the process.
