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Let’s Review : Dark Reader

If you are a fan of dark mode in all apps and devices you use, chances are you have also applied a dark theme in your favorite browser. Unlike Microsoft’s Edge browser, Google Chrome does not come with a native dark mode and such themes can help solve the matter. But they still do not darken the actual browsing view, leaving it out to the website’s developer to have a dark mode built in, for example, YouTube. This is where Dark Reader comes to the rescue by intelligently inverting colors to the darker side as you browse the web. But how does it fair with the most popular sites out there and what features does it offer? Read on to find out.

Bootstrap: Button Customization Explained

Making a website is a fun and interesting project. However, styling your website with the help of CSS could be more difficult than it may seem in the beginning. Thankfully, there is Bootstrap to save the day. It is a framework that helps you build responsive websites in the most easiest way.

Now, we browse many different websites on a daily basis and they come in so many different styles and colours while Bootstrap gives your website a very particular theme. However, customising them is actually very easy and you do not need to be an expert in CSS for that.

Microsoft is Putting Servers Under The Ocean

All computers power hungry or otherwise, emit heat when operational. That is why you are advised by manufacturers to avoid blocking your computer’s vents, which they use to get rid of the heat generated inside. Servers on the other hand are the powerful industrial counterparts to your regular desktop PC at home. The modern data centers of today used for data processing and distribution among many others, are likely to have thousands of such servers running 24/7.

Beyond The Visible – Dark Matter & Dark Energy

The never ending expanse of the universe around us has recently been re-imagined to be an expanding bubble contained in yet another dimension. The whole universe has been modeled to be accommodated on the surface of the bubble and researchers say this could pave the way for us to solve the mysteries about dark matter and dark energy. So what are they and how much do we know about them?

Geeky Fact : 1337

C4n u und3r574nd wh47 15 wr1773n h3r3?
(Can you understand what is written here?)

If you are a gamer or take interest in geeky topics, chances are you have seen such notations. This kind of modified spelling is no coincidence, it is known as leet (“1337”) or eleet or leetspeak and has a very interesting origin. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, World Wide Web did not exist and hence most online communication such as messaging and sharing of files was done using Bulletin Board System (BBS) usually accessed via Telnet.