The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

Sometimes, whether you’re chatting with friends or posting on social media, words just aren’t enough — you need a GIF to fully convey your feelings. If there’s a moment from a YouTube video that you ...

While the internet has been transformed over the last 30 years into a kind of engineering fairyland, the popularity of low-tech animated GIFs in the age of social media has held up better than most ...

If a picture says a thousand words, then a great GIF can say a million. Whether you want to share a short animated clip that's funny, poignant, informative, or shocking, posting a GIF on Instagram is ...

If a picture says 1,000 words, how much does a video say? With motion photos, you get the flexibility of a recording with the same quality as a static image. When activated, motion photos take a ...

There's a new kid on the GIF-creation scene, and it's a good kid. This week, Imgur launched a new "Video to GIF" feature that lets you enter a URL, adjust the parameters of a clip, and get a ...

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 ...

Alina Bradford has been writing how-tos, tech articles and more for almost two decades. She currently writes for CNET's Smart Home Section, MTVNews' tech section and for Live Science's reference ...

Ask PC Gamer is our weekly question and advice column. Have a burning question about the smoke coming out of your PC? Send your questions to [email protected]. “Is there an easy way to make animated ...

We use them at Buffer in our customer service tweets, our emails, our Slack channel. We include GIFs in marketing emails and team announcements. Anywhere there’s a message; there’s the chance for a ...

Making screen-capture videos in iOS 11 is easy, and turning them into GIFs is even easier. Photo: Cult of Mac Thanks to the new screen-recording feature in iOS 11, you can now make a video of whatever ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...