I'm writing some bits and bobs for the Smartphone at the moment. I've been given some little games to play with and I'm making them into articles. For one of them I thought it might be nice to create a glowing cursor type thing. This is not hard to program, the hard bit is picking the colours to use. So rather than spend five minutes working out the colour values by hand I instead spent 20 minutes making my patent GlowPicker:

It doesn't do much, You can set the Red, Green and Blue values for your colour and then use the big slider to control the brightness. Then you just copy the line of text out of the textfield to create the colour value for your program. I'm not that proud of it, but it took twenty minutes to create. Twenty minutes. The power and flexibility of the tools that you can get hold of today is really impressive. Visual Studio is a great tool to doodle with!

If you are interested you can find the entire VS project here.