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 ...

GIFs have been around since way back in 1987, but show no signs of disappearing. They continue to be a popular way of sharing short videos in just about any app, on just about any platform. Whether ...

You can easily transform photos and videos into GIF files to share with family, friends or the world at large. By J. D. Biersdorfer Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first ...

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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 ...

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There's no need to scroll through digital libraries and databases for pre-made and overused reaction GIFs or animated memes — you can make your own. DIY GIF-making is possible on your Android or ...

GIFs are fun and can be deployed everywhere from your Twitter feed to your workplace Slack conversations—here’s how you can create them straight from your phone’s camera, with or without extra app ...

Twitter made creating a GIF as easy as posting an image. Using the iPhone camera, users can capture a short video in the social-networking service’s app that is automatically converted into a GIF.

Threads doesn't have a built-in GIF feature, but in the meantime you can still express yourself with these workarounds. In this day and age, GIFs are a basic form of online communication—just as ...

Online "visual" reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs -- those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the ...

You're messaging your friend, and they just told you the juiciest gossip you've ever heard. It's so utterly surprising that words simply won't cut it. So what do you do instead? You send a GIF of ...