have you ever been working late at night on a report because you've spent the
entire day screwing around and found the incessantly white background of your
word processor and your web browser to be unbearable well indeed we're staying
in front of our screens later and later into the night these days which is why
today we're honoring our first unsung
hero of tech dark mode oftentimes it isn't obvious
whether an app or a program features a dark mode and it's often a little
unassuming option buried in a menu somewhere but for those of you who are
night owls you'll know that it works by reversing the usual color scheme of your
Windows putting light-colored text on a dark background but it isn't as simple
as just inverting the colors on a web page and calling it a day and you can
see this if you have a browser extension that applies a dark mode as some
elements on the page often don't look as nice while other ones such as images
won't invert or dim properly so coding a
good looking dark mode that is specific to a certain website often requires a
fair bit of finesse however this often ends up being worth
it as dark mode ends up delivering quite a few benefits you see it's pretty
common these days for phones and computers to have a built-in night mode
to reduce blue light you can learn more about that up here but the basic idea is
that blue light from your screens can affect your ability to properly fall
asleep so night mode reduces blue light emissions by giving everything a
yellowish or reddish tinge and this might not be a big deal if
you're just trying to read text but it can result in nearly everything else
looking noticeably discolored and that's where dark mode can be advantageous
particularly on phones many smartphones these days use OLED screens which don't
require a backlight like a standard tv or computer monitor would so any fully
black areas of an app in dark mode would just have their pixels turned completely
off so much less light ends up assaulting your eyes and although you
won't get this effect if you're using a regular monitor as you'll still have its
entire backlight emitting blue light dark mode can still make things much
easier to look at during the night if you don't have another way to reduce eye
strain such as bias lighting but it isn't just about making screens
easier on the eyes on those phones with OLED screens that we just mentioned
having fewer pixels illuminated means that dark mode can extend your battery
life as having your brightness turned up is a notorious battery hog leading some
people to run their apps in dark mode even during the daytime in fact google
claimed a few years ago that having a predominantly white screen can use up to
six times as much battery as a predominantly black one on the original
pixel so it might be worth switching to dark mode if you find yourself
consistently fighting poor battery life Android currently offers options to
enable dark mode on frequently used apps like phone and messages and iOS has a
smart invert colors feature that switches apple apps to a dark mode
pretty elegantly and also works with third-party apps with varying degrees of
success on the desktop side of things you can enable a dark theme in Windows
10 that can tone down the excessive white of the settings menu and file
explorer so although dark modes aren't universally present yet it's great to
see developers putting some thought into saving our eyes and that's why it's the
first unsung hero of tech and speaking
of saving your eyes check out the invisible shield with eye safe you
already know that bright screens that emit blue light can both strain your
eyes and disrupt your sleep and we're spending 10 or even more hours a day
staring at screens on average so why not
protect your eyes their glass plus vision guard with eyesafe technology
filters harmful blue light while maintaining the color performance of
your display so the way it does this is that instead of blocking entire parts of
the visible spectrum vision guard will only remove the most
harmful high-energy blue light for superior color reproduction in fact it
adheres to the tuv rhineland standard for maintaining color quality glass plus
vision guard is available for both iphone and ipad so love your eyes check
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