Animated Web page backgrounds can be eye-catching, and you can create them using GIF files. When you add text and other content to your business Web pages, you don't have to worry about adding ...

When words are not enough, GIFs are a perfect way to convey big emotions, like outrage, shock, and joy. But have you ever felt limited by the selection available? Perhaps you have a series of photos ...

The old-school GIF has somehow become the modern day medium for expressing everything from intense emotional responses to live breaking news. Rather than relying on stock GIFs provided by others, you ...

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 ...

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their ...

If there’s a reason you haven’t killed yourself by now, it’s probably because you recently saw an animated GIF. But where do they come from? Where do they go? Can you make your own? Like Prometheus ...

You can make a YouTube video into a GIF using free websites like GIPHY. GIPHY lets you select up to 30 seconds from nearly any YouTube video and turn it into a GIF ...

I love animated GIFs. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the greatest gift God ever bestowed upon the Internet. While most Mac users probably think making them requires Photoshop and some superior ...

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 ...

Animated GIFs have been around for almost two decades, allowing users to create and share simple animations online. The file format has persevered despite its shortcomings (e.g., no sound), and in ...

Animated GIF files, while fun to watch, can consume a large amount of space on your business website and on forums where you might post them. Animated GIFs are large because they consist of multiple ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...