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, ...

The modern Web is abuzz with animated GIFs, because they offer an easy way to enhance a story or conversation. Whether it’s to add a clever reference, express ourselves or showcase memorable moments ...

The GIF format remains a popular file format for animating images. However, the technology hasn’t changed since 1987, and its limitations are starting to show. Which is why the image hosting website, ...

Live Photos, one of the new features built into the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, can be a hoot and a half. With the feature enabled in the Camera app, every snapped photo is accompanied by a 3-second ...

Cinemagraphs -- those artsy hybrids of animated gifs and film stills -- used to require a good deal of work to set up and create. That changes today with Google's latest iOS app Motion Stills, which ...

The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

A service that creates an infinite loop GIF animation of 320 × 240 at 10 frames per second is "Face to gif"is. Normally you will need special software and some work to create GIF animation, but face ...

Developed by Tiny Whale (the same studio behind Lean), Lively was one of the first utilities to enable exporting of Live Photos to GIF shortly after the iPhone 6s was released. Today, Tiny Whale has ...