You can set Growl notifications for certain friends, so that when they come online, you get a handy bubble notifying you instantaneously that you should run to your Xbox to initiate a throwdown. A lazy gamer can dream, can’t he?Īside from the downsides, though, it appears as if the app still is pretty cool. Imagine seeing one and instead of logging into My Xbox through, you just switch to MacLive and enter it in. Xbox Live gamer cards such as the one I use on 99 lives are all the rage online, there’s thousands of them everywhere. Seeing this feature had me hyped for MacLive. Same goes for being ability to view achievements, delete friends, send messages, etc but there is one really nice feature present but its also currently broken - the ability to add friends. Speaking of preferences, there aren’t any right now. You can play Diablo III for Consoles online with friends (through Xbox LIVE. Unfortunately, it's not very robust-there is a rather comprehensive review of the little app on 99Lives, which mentions that there are some limitations: You can add friends to this list by entering their e-mail or BattleTag into.
XBOX FRIENDS LIST FOR MAC MAC
It's buried deep within the abyss of Google Code, and allows Mac users to manage their Xbox Live buddy lists directly from the desktop. Sure, you can manage your Xbox Live friends list online via My Xbox already, but how about doing that via your Mac desktop? Maclive is a handy little app written by a fellow Arsian James Howard ("fats" on the Ars forums). I know that a lot of you guys are gamers, and I also know that a lot of you guys are also lazy.