Yes that's right, we've already got a few resourceful fellows who have managed to create some new applications to be used in conjunction with your Xbox 360.

First up is Xplorer 360. This tool apparently empowers the user with full read/write support to an Xbox 360's hard drive or memory card, meaning the ability to dump all your saves to your PC or download other people's saves from the Intarweb and upload them to your 360.

This software is still in a fairly early beta stage but quite astonishing progress is being made, with almost every eager cheater who downloads the software acting as a beta tester.

It's too early to say whether downloading someone elses completed game save to a 360 would also bestow the gamerscore normally awarded for such an achievement to the profile in use. Good or bad, you can decide for yourself at 360 GameSaves.

Next piece of innovation is a partly functioning Web Browser for your 360 that operates via the Media Center Extender, from the bright-spark, Anthony Park. Users running Windows XP MCE only will have access to this one (I don't honestly know if you need Media Center for the game save one).

This too is in the early stages of development, so at the moment there is no way to input text of any kind, whether it be stuff within a page or URL's themselves. All website addresses must be input and configured through Media Center.

Still, it shows that there are a lot of clever people out there already working on making our 360's more functional than Microsoft even intended.