Once the hallmark of low-end online ads—dancing girls for dating sites and jiggling bellies for weight loss products—animated GIF images are popping up everywhere. You'll see them used throughout ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

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 ...

“Animated GIFs are the web’s vinyl records,” wrote Jamie Zawinski on Twitter a few months ago. It’s a sly but accurate observation. In the face of Flash and streaming video, the animated GIF, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to send animated GIFs from your iPhone using the Messages app, using the built-in app drawer added in iOS 11. In this tutorial we show how to make use of this feature, and amuse and delight ...

With cell phones getting smarter, it has never been easier to customise them to match your persona or mood. And the wallpaper and screensaver you use-whether on a PC or a cell phone-are a statement ...

Well this is a nifty little messaging app for iOS. React Messenger is a new messaging app that uses animated GIFs to show your reactions to text messages. Available only on iOS at this point it looks ...