Introducing XBList 3.0 -- XBL on your desktop

by Richard Mitchell { Jan 15th 2007 at 12:30PM }

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 ~~porn~~ email. As if all that wasn't enough, the program also supports quick links to Achievement comparisons, Friends' Live profiles, and Halo 2 stats.

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]

Tags: xblist, xblist 3, xblist 3.0, Xblist3, Xblist3.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DjDATZ @ Jan 15th 2007 12:48PM

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.

Quinion @ Jan 15th 2007 1:04PM

works with vista

Dancingtosirens @ Jan 15th 2007 1:31PM

Kinda sucks owning a 360 when you use a mac for the majority of your computing.
Oh well, thats the profession I fell into.

dada @ Jan 15th 2007 2:55PM

this thing eats up a tone of ram, check task manager

Tim Marman @ Feb 2nd 2007 8:29AM

Runs on Vista for me, but doesn't seem to detect that I'm logged in (even when I re-login).

Derka @ Jan 15th 2007 2:30PM

I love it!

David @ Jan 15th 2007 2:30PM

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

jc @ Jan 15th 2007 2:35PM

Dancing, ever hear of Connect360?

http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360

Mikeawesome @ Jan 15th 2007 2:31PM

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.

razer @ Jan 15th 2007 2:30PM

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.

yorkie1990 @ Jan 15th 2007 3:03PM

Keeps saying i have to download MS frame Network 2.0
i download it and it fails to install. WHAT DO I DO!!!??

mike @ Jan 15th 2007 3:52PM

gabage, it cant detect im logged into xbox.com, no matter how may times I re-login

TheBLAHBLAHBLAH @ Jan 15th 2007 4:41PM

i agree, too much ram usage going on. around 30mb in the 5 minutes i had it installed.

Ben Hollis @ Jan 15th 2007 11:29PM

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.

Ben Hollis @ Jan 15th 2007 11:08PM

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.

Lamarr Wilson @ Jan 15th 2007 10:25PM

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!

Anthony @ Jan 16th 2007 12:24PM

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.