Good news for all the desk bound 360 fanboys out there, the newest version of XBList has just been released. For those unfamiliar with the program, XBList 3.0 puts your Xbox Live friends list right on your desktop in the style of an IM buddy list. It lets you check out what your friends are playing (with their gamer pictures intact), access your incoming messages, see incoming friend requests and game invites, and it will even take you directly to your messages or Live profile page. So, you may be stuck behind a desk all day, but at least you'll know what your buddies are up to. And with game invites intact, you'll never miss a match because you were checking your It really is a spiffy little application. We recommend you check it out. Also, the app is supposedly Vista compliant. Anyone with Vista let us know if it works.
[Via DCEmu]
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1-15-2007 @ 12:48PM
DjDATZ said...
wow...love it. works so nicely...only thing i dont like about it...is when you sign in...theres a whole load of pop-ups for everyone's status...but other than that...its amazing.
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1-15-2007 @ 1:04PM
Quinion said...
works with vista
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1-15-2007 @ 1:31PM
Dancingtosirens said...
Kinda sucks owning a 360 when you use a mac for the majority of your computing.
Oh well, thats the profession I fell into.
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1-15-2007 @ 2:30PM
razer said...
I really miss Xbox Friends Widget. And if you have a mac I would definately recommend using that instead. This thing is buggy and why does everything have to be GIGANTIC! The notifications and the whole list in general is ugly. Is the author 1/2 blind? Definately needs a re-design, well unless you like things ugly.
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1-15-2007 @ 2:30PM
David said...
Mac users may not get all those fancy 360 features, but we still have some alternatives.
360 Gamercard widget: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/xboxlivegamercard.html
XBL Friends List: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16806
Connect 360 (stream iTunes and iPhoto to your 360): http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360
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1-15-2007 @ 2:30PM
Derka said...
I love it!
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1-15-2007 @ 2:31PM
Mikeawesome said...
I used the last few iterations for a good while.
Great app, but I found it to be a terrible memory whore. If they fixed that I'll use it again, for sure.
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1-15-2007 @ 2:35PM
jc said...
Dancing, ever hear of Connect360?
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360
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1-15-2007 @ 2:55PM
dada said...
this thing eats up a tone of ram, check task manager
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1-15-2007 @ 3:03PM
yorkie1990 said...
Keeps saying i have to download MS frame Network 2.0
i download it and it fails to install. WHAT DO I DO!!!??
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1-15-2007 @ 3:52PM
mike said...
gabage, it cant detect im logged into xbox.com, no matter how may times I re-login
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1-15-2007 @ 4:41PM
TheBLAHBLAHBLAH said...
i agree, too much ram usage going on. around 30mb in the 5 minutes i had it installed.
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1-15-2007 @ 10:25PM
Lamarr Wilson said...
This is a great find! I'm glad that I subscribe to your RSS feed! I was always refreshing to see what my friends were doing; this eliminates that. Thanks!
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1-15-2007 @ 11:08PM
Ben Hollis said...
mike,
are you logging in via Internet Explorer? If you can see your friends list on xbox.com in IE, you should be able to have it in XBList.
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1-15-2007 @ 11:29PM
Ben Hollis said...
Please don't sweat the resource usage - that's normal for a .NET app, and it doesn't really consume all that memory. Check out this from the FAQ:
http://brh.numbera.com/software/xblist/troubleshooting/#memory
razer: I'm sorry you think it's ugly - I've got a lot planned for the future in the way of aesthetics. I assure you I'm not half-blind. What do you mean by GIGANTIC though? I mean, the gamer cards are the size of gamer cards, and the popup notifications (which you can disable if you like) are the size of your standard MSN/Outlook popups.
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1-16-2007 @ 12:24PM
Anthony said...
Nice work, Ben, I think it's a neat application that will hopefully improve with time.
I did notice I sometimes have problems viewing my friends' gamercards when hovering over their names, however -- it seems really hit and miss.
The design is also nice and simple, but it could use some work as razer said (although not quite to that extent). I like that it integrates with your Windows theme, too.
It'd be nice to have options to show your own account information without having to go to your profile in IE as well, but I suppose that's a constraint of .NET more than anything.
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2-02-2007 @ 8:29AM
Tim Marman said...
Runs on Vista for me, but doesn't seem to detect that I'm logged in (even when I re-login).
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