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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are plenty of tools and apps out there for creating your own GIFs, but few are as straightforward to use as Imgur’s new offering. Even better, it uses the better-quality, more lightweight format ...

A GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format is a digital image format used to animate short clips that run on a loop. The GIF owes its popularity primarily to Tumblr, where users dedicate entire blogs to ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Adam has a degree in Engineering, having always been fascinated by how tech works. Tech websites have saved him hours of tearing his hair out on countless occasions, and he enjoys the opportunity to ...

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 ...

GIFs have ruled the web during 2014, and it seems this popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by video behemoth YouTube. A new tool, spotted by Twitter user Andy Baio, lets people create five-second ...