Animated GIF files can add life to a website if used in moderation, or serve as an interesting forum avatar. A GIF animation that is playing too fast however, can be distracting or make it hard for ...

Sometimes, it’s a lot easier to record yourself doing something and send it to a person than attempt to describe it for them and watch them struggle to do it themselves. At least, that’s how I feel ...

If you cut your chops on the web during the era of hand-coded HTML websites, then you definitely know that the most important part of a good site are the GIFs. How else would you notify your readers ...

More than two decades ago, in 1987, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format, a file that allows users with incompatible PCs to exchange pictures. They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with a ...

Here is a guide for you to create an animated GIF meme in Windows 11/10. Memes are graphics used to present an idea, dialogue, behavior, or style in an amusing way. Memes are everywhere these days.

Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make. The low frame rates ...

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their coolness, they remain popular with a certain vintage of internet user (like ...

Even with all the video streaming options available to us today, there’s nothing that can match the weird, mesmerizing quality of a good animated GIF. That’s why no matter where you go on the Internet ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008” and ...