Using animated GIF images as a crude WebSocket is an idea we’ve never come across before, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Not in terms of it’s overall usefulness, but just for the fact that the ...

You can use the open source video player VLC to make animated desktops from animated GIFs that are converted to a video format. You can use such a desktop to play a video that highlights milestones in ...

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 ...

Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg’s animated photos turn the medium of choice for 4chan trolls into something approaching high art. You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art ...

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

Q: Animated GIFs once ruled the Internet, appearing on every teenager's Geocities homepage or MySpace profile. Now I can't seem to find any that I like. Can I make my own instead? A: Created way back ...

The year 2012 was a momentous one for the animated GIF. The popularity of Dump.fm was just beginning to fade, but the platform, which facilitates real-time chat with images, had sparked GIF-making ...

This portable program is a good pick if you find creating animated GIFs too fiddly and time-intensive. GIF animations are back in vogue, thanks to memes. Even without their use as humor postcards, it ...

What does the history of GIF art look like? This is a tricky question to answer because while there has been no shortage of animated GIF exhibitions, there is a dearth of documentation. Bond Street, a ...