So I was sitting there this morning, and it just hit me... I used to use about:blank as my home page on my *really* old PC because anything else just took too long to bring up... and what is about:blank... a blank page... and a blank page is...



So go to your browser on your device, type in about:blank and save it as a favorite with the name 'flashlight'... and hello mom... you've got an instant flashlight... nothing to download... you're welcome :)



I have two pages at WynApse.com that I will leave up as long as I'm in scope, that will provide other flashlight functionality...

First is Blue Light

This provides a soft 'Silverlight' light... suitable as a nightlight... particularly if used in conjunction with the paperclip kickstand from the other day :)

Second is Night Vision Red

This one is to be used when you're outside and don't want to mess up your night vision :) ... I just looked that up, and the jury is out on if that works for everyone or not, and I just picked a red color out of my hat... if anyone knows a colorref that is better suited, let me know... as you can guess, it's not a huge effort to change.



I don't see a reason to show the code here... you can view source on those two pages and put up an entire color-cornucopia of flashlights :)



When you run one of these flashlights, turn the phone into landscape mode, and the 'chrome' will all go away and you'll have a larger flashlight area. Going back to portrait mode will get your control back.

Stick around, who knows, I'll probably think up other uses for the 'run what you brung' set.



I dont' know if it's *this* phone because of the memory size, or all phones, but trying to save those three links as shortcuts ran me out of space.

So, I had a better idea, and it combines this post with my one about OneNote.

Simply make yourself a page in OneNote called Flashlights, and have a set of links in there like this:

Flashlight: http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/WP7/FlashLight.html
BlueLight: http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/WP7/BlueLight.html
NightVision: http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/WP7/NightVision.html

Now you can pin that page to the start page, and when you need one of these beauties, just click the link... oh, and notice I added a Flashlight.html link to WynApse.com because I couldn't launch into http://about:blank from OneNote... duh.

Have fun, and

Stay in the 'Light!