Nicholas Pike » iXboxLive

I am a programmer, a scientist. I am NOT customer service.

npike — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:15:05 +0000

I really enjoy getting emails like the following, from users who don’t understand all the work it takes to give them something free to bash.

Well Connor. Its people like you, that explains why I don’t bother wasting my time fixing bugs anymore. Ungrateful and non-constructive emails like this ruin it for everyone else.

For those curious, my response to him was:

Hey Connor, just to let you know; constructive feedback helps me fix its problems. Your email wasn’t very useful. Thanks

iXboxLive => Xbox LIVE Friends

npike — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:30:31 +0000

Due to a request by Microsoft LIVE Legal Services, iXboxLive has been renamed to “Xbox LIVE Friends”, and even better news: is now completely free!

iXboxLive 1.1 – In Review

npike — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:02:46 +0000

iXboxLive 1.1 has been submitted to Apple for review! Many under-the-hood changes, and a ton of visual changes:

Many crash bug fixes
- Won’t immediately crash to the springboard if you have no active internet connection (iPod Touch users). This often resulted in your buddy list being wiped. This has been fixed.
- Occasionally downloading avatar images from Microsoft would result in a crash. This should be fixed.
Redesigned Buddy List and Details View
- The Buddy list now resembles the style of displaying friends that Xbox.com uses! (Thanks Mike Jefferson and Erik Bye for your help here..)
- The gamer details view has been redesigned by TOTUSHI. You can find him online here: http://www.totushi.com/. He is a visual artist that does excellent freelance work.
Message Xbox buddy’s with www.xbox.com
Online buddies are automatically moved to the top of your buddy list
The application now does some under-the-hood caching of gamer tag avatars, which should result in better loading performance.

iXboxLive is also sporting a new Springboard Icon, designed by Erik Bye:

Time for some screenshots!

Progress Update: iXboxLive 1.1

npike — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:06:25 +0000

Wow! I’ve gotten a huge response from the Internet about iXboxLive 1.0. Over all mostly positive, but there are some big issues that I need to fix for the first update.

I’ve fixed the crash that occurs when theres no active internet connection, which often resulted in your iXboxLive buddy list to be whiped out.
I’ve hopefully fixed the source of random startup crashes.
I’ve increased loading performance significantly. iXboxLive will load its main interface and add buddys to the buddy list as their information is retrieved. (As opposed to what it does now, and waits for all the information retrieval to be finished before displaying the main interface)

More info to come.