XBList 3.0 - bringing Live to your Windows desktop
A new release of XBList is now available, those of you sitting at your PC’s wondering what your friends are doing on Xbox Live need wonder no more. If you’re unfamiliar with XBList, it’s an IM style program for your Windows PC that will provide access to your Xbox friends list and a host of other Live features.
Taken from the official XBList site:
XBList is a Windows program written in C# that can display your Xbox Live Friends List in a buddy-list format. It is designed to be simple and unobtrusive. It also has some integration with Xbox.com to display Gamer Tiles and Gamer Cards, and Bungie.net to display Halo 2 information and player emblems. To use this program you must have an Xbox Live account, a Microsoft .NET Passport account, and an Xbox.com account.
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One of the many changes to version 3.0 is the new ability to read messages received via Xbox Live and even be notified when messages are received via very smart looking popup windows. Here’s a full breakdown of XBList’s current features:
- Constantly updates to show who’s playing what.
- Shows friends that can be joined on Xbox Live in blue.
- Shows friend requests.
- Displays Xbox Live Gamer Tiles or Halo 2 emblems.
- When you hover over a Gamer Tag, it shows their Gamer Card, with extra info about when they last signed on and what they’re playing. It will also show their Halo emblem if they don’t have a Gamer Tile or you prefer Halo Emblems.
- Double-clicking a Gamer Tag loads their Gamer Card, and you can also load their Halo 2 stats.
- Popup notifications when friends sign on and off, as well as on other events. Popups can make a sound if you enable sounds in the Options.
- Manage your Friends List right from the Windows desktop - add and remove friends, and accept/reject friend invites.
- Displays an alert whenever you have new Xbox Live messages.
- Works with the Xbox360 - Shows extra game info in Gamer Card popup, and uses a different icon for Xbox360 games.
With my Xbox 360 being downstairs and my PC being upstairs, I’m finding this little application to be very useful! The creator of XBList advises that the program may be compatible with Windows Vista and asks that if anybody happens to try it on Microsoft’s new operating system, let him know how you get on over at the official XBList site.
Be sure to let us know how useful you find this program to be and indeed if you know of any other Xbox related software for the PC that we at Xboxic may have missed!
I will only use it if it blurs out names like in the pictures.
all i want is voice chat and i would try it..
I still think the same thing as when the last version came out - would you really choose to use this over, say, xbox.com? The one vaguely useful feature which it might be nice to have to hand - Send Message - seems to be missing (presumably as an anti-spam measure or something)
Xbox.com does have a tendency to be dead slow
it never takes more than a few seconds for me
Xbox.com is always lightning quick for me, yay!
same for me
Unfortunately doesn’t work under Vista. Emailed the chappie to let him know…..
it’ll be built in to Vista soon anyway
i was woundering about the friends list on ur sell phone i looked everywhere but can find anything any one know about it let me know k tx
you’re talking about liveanywhere, i dont think its been released yet…
works on my vista
do you have a RC build or full version?
not worth the resources it uses, around 30mb. i’ll stick to the bookmark to the xbox live friends list page.
An alright little program. Much easier than pushing refresh all the time (quite lazy me). Only problem about it is that you have to have your email and password saved - which I don’t like doing
Use Firefox and the ReloadEvery extension and you don’t have to hit refresh yourself.
I personally find the program to be very handy. Although I do use xbox.com fairly often, particularly to send/recieve messages, I find the popup notifications on this program to be very helpful. I often have the scenario where a friend will say something along the lines of “I’m just gonna grab a bite to eat, will be on Live later for a game of GoW”. Now I can just carry on doing what I’m doing until I see the popup, lovely jubbly.
If anything, this small little program perhaps shows a little bit of what we might see when Live Anywhere brings more Live features to the PC later this year.
Not bad
Or, you can go to xbox.com, log in with .NET passport and do everything. What’s the difference?