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Communicating with GIFs
The document discusses the use of GIFs as a more expressive alternative to emojis in various communication platforms, emphasizing their ability to convey humor and information quickly. It provides tips on managing GIFs, including their size and storage, and suggests tools and sources for finding and creating GIFs. The document also addresses potential issues like GIF storms and the appropriateness of GIF use in different contexts.
Communicating with GIFs
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- 6. Why use GIFs? 4it’s like emoji, but more expressive
- 8. Why use GIFs? 4a picture says a thousand words 4 beats typing 4 humour!
- 10. Why use GIFs? 4you can use the actual gif image 4 iMessage 4 mail 4 warning: gifs tend to be big
- 11. Why use GIFs? 4You can use just a text link 4 You can use them everywhere "connected" 4 it's text -> fast 4 works great in social media 4 EXCEPTFACEBOOK
- 13. Why use GIFs? 4Also great in work related communication 4 chatrooms (Stack, Hipchat, ...) 4 lovely in commit messages 4 works great for PRs
- 16. Why use GIFs? 4Gifs of cats. Nuff said.
- 21. No really, they'regreat for all sorts of stuff
- 29. How to useGIFS? 4 it has to convey more info than just text 4 you have to be able to reply fast 4 not all answers are good as a gif 4 know when to use gifs 4 Watch out for gifstorms 4 except on friday
- 31. Manage your urls 4use original URL: 4 fast for you (no extra work) 4 fast for viewer (may be cached) 4 linkrot!
- 34. Manage your urls 4Upload image to "managed" storage: 4 dropbox 4 cloudapp 4 S3 4 your-own-domain.io
- 36. Size matters 4 Keepon eye on the size of the gif 4 some can be quite large 4 no need for “quality” 4 plain text gifs 4 If you use gifs a lot (in the same group/ context), you can fallback to plain text 4 Just use the name of the gif
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- 39. Tools 4 Make yourlife easier 4 Use the correct tool for you 4 easy to find, easy to copy
- 41. Tools - Mac 4Alfred 4 Boom 4 Gifwit 4 GIFs
- 42. Alfred 4 Add gifsas clipboard snippets 4 Use the 's' shortcut to find snippets 4 http://alfredapp.com 4 Needs Powerpack!
- 43. Boom 4 Snippets fromthe commandline 4 Great if you're a Terminal person 4 http://github.com/ holman/boom
- 44. Gifwit 4 App storeapp ($2.99) 4 http://gifwit.com 4 url + keywords 4 preview!
- 45. GIFs 4 Open sourceapp by @orta 4 repository of gifs 4 WIP but definitely useable ;)
- 46. Tools - iOS 4iOS text shortcuts 4 Popkey
- 47. Tools - iOStext shortcuts 4 tedious to manage 4 no spaces in shortcuts 4 better than nothing
- 49. Tools - PopKey 4Gif keyboard for iOS8 4 http://popkey.co 4 "Coming soon"
- 51. Sources 4 Reddit 4 http://reddit.com/r/gifs 4http://reddit.com/r/michaelbaygifs 4 "Specialized" sites 4 http://replygif.net 4 http://reactiongifs.com 4 http://giphy.com
- 52. Sources 4 ALL THETumblr BLOGS 4 Google Image Search 4 Search tools - Type - Animated
- 53. Make your own! 4gifme 4 https://github.com/holman/gifme So easy: gifme ~/Desktop/*.jpg You now have a handsome animation at ~/Desktop/animated.gif
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