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 ...

Here's a little-known Internet secret: GIF files -- the preferred medium for sharing pithy animation loops across the web -- were never invented with this purpose in mind. Instead, the file format was ...

Movie To GIF is a simple freeware for Windows that can help you convert video files to animated GIF format. This software allows you to convert video and movie files and add numerous special effects ...

Graphics Interchange Format, popularly known as GIF is a digital file format. A GIF is a file containing multiple images encoded sequentially to create an animation. It can also be a short video clip ...

Crop extra space around the image to reduce its dimensions. When you prepare the GIF, reduce its output dimensions. Reduce the number of colors in the image. For animated GIFs, reduce the number of ...

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 ...

Knowing how to enlarge files in GIF or JPEG format lets you fit your images to the media in which you want to present those images. Your Web page may require an illustration to fit into a specific ...

The popular blogging platform now offers a search tool through which you can spice up your posts with animated GIF files from other users. Here's how to do it. Tumblr users now don’t have to look far ...

Social media platform Twitter has increased the size of animated GIF files that users can upload to 15 MB, opening up the possibility of using higher quality and/or longer GIFs in situations when ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Here’s a little-known Internet secret: GIF files — the preferred medium for sharing pithy animation loops across the web — were never ...