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.

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Searching for alternatives to paid software can be a pain at the best of times, scouring open-source repositories like Sourceforge, reading up on reviews to check if the application can do exactly what it says it can. Whilst there are social websites like Wakoopa that track application usage, there isn’t much in the way of sites that suggest different applications to the ones you already use.

AlternativeTo is a website that carefully selects the software it finds alternatives to, instead of listing thousands of applications that people wouldn’t necessarily find alternatives to.

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When it comes to working out a little bit of mathematics fast, a lot of people will open up the Calculator application within their Windows installation. The tool has quite a few functions that will assist most users but some will need an application that can scale to suit their mathematical skill.

Enter SpeedCrunch. SpeedCrunch is multiplatform (Windows, Mac and Linux) calculator that has support for expressions, users can copy and paste expressions into the bar and automatically receive as answer as they work.

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Are you fed up of having to backup your files to your USB key when you move between your computers at work, home or on your other computer? Allow me to introduce Dropbox, a multi-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) application that allows you to sync your files to designated folders on your computers, as well as the web.

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