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Ah, the GIF. If you love the Internet, you can't help but love that wonderfully animated, comically compressed image file format. Officially called ...
Thirty years ago, the GIF was born. Ben Zimmer on how this technology term has aged remarkably well—even though how to pronounce it is still debated.
For a free app, GIF Maker-Editor is relatively light on annoying ads but it does cap your image’s resolution at 448-by-578 pixels. If you want to create GIFs in 720p, then you’ll need to ...
Animated GIFs are hotter than ever, but legal precedent has not caught up with the popularity of the format. Before you start sharing GIFs in your own content, make sure you're in compliance with ...
THE GIF turned 30 today, so, let’s wish the Graphical Interchange Format a very happy birthday. From its humble beginnings on black and white computers to its now ubiquitous usage in memes, w… ...
The swan song of the beloved (ex) band from Athens, Georgia, R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 – 2011, is a 40-song retrospective of much loved and slightly maligned ...
Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of ...
GIF Cards: Happy holidays from Mr. GIF Introducing GIF cards, the Daily Dot’s fun and easy-to-share gift to the Internet. Fernando Alfonso III Updated on May 20 2025 2:15 pm CDT ...
GIF inventor made few rich, but billions happy John Foley March 24, 202212:18 PM PDTUpdated March 24, 2022 ...
While you can always screen-share with a person to walk them through a software setup or a settings tweak, you can also make a quick animated .GIF that answers their questions and sends them on ...
For example, to make an animated GIF on a Google Pixel 4 XL, open Google Photos and select an image saved as a motion photo, or use the search tool to look for “motion photos.” (The Camera app ...