A lot of people wanted to be able to track their Xbox Live friends through their iPhone or iPod Touch and now they can. Nicholas Pike has created an application called "iXboxLive", which allows you to view anyone's gamertag for $0.99.

Although it does crash and lags a bit, it does what is promised. It will display gamertag names, their Achivements for a specific game, and their overall Gamer Score. In addition, it shows what time they last got on Xbox Live and which game they were playing.

It's an idea that's as old as iPhone/iPod Touch software version 2.0: the ability to track Xbox Live Gamertags on the Apple handheld. But Nicholas Pike is the first to do it with his iXboxLive application: for 99 cents you can have the ability to view anyone's Gamertag on the go.

The program has an "early" feel to it -- in our tests it's prone to lagging and system crashes, but it does a good job doing what it's supposed to do: displaying players' Gamertags, their Achievements points for each game, and their overall Gamer Score in a touch-screen interface. It also shows when they were on last and playing which game.

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