These the slides of a lighting talk I gave at NSSpain 2014.
Unfortunately, PDFs cannot contain GIFs, so this presentation is actually pretty bland. ;)
You can download the Deckset source with included GIFS here: http://cl.ly/3l2l1U0S2m2O
8. Why use GIFs?
4 a picture says a thousand words
4 beats typing
4 humour!
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10. Why use GIFs?
4 you can use the actual gif image
4 iMessage
4 mail
4 warning: gifs tend to be big
11. Why use GIFs?
4 You 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
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13. Why use GIFs?
4 Also great in work related communication
4 chatrooms (Stack, Hipchat, ...)
4 lovely in commit messages
4 works great for PRs
29. How to use GIFS?
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
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31. Manage your urls
4 use original URL:
4 fast for you (no extra work)
4 fast for viewer (may be cached)
4 linkrot!
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34. Manage your urls
4 Upload image to "managed" storage:
4 dropbox
4 cloudapp
4 S3
4 your-own-domain.io
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36. Size matters
4 Keep on 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
52. Sources
4 ALL THE Tumblr BLOGS
4 Google Image Search
4 Search tools - Type - Animated
53. Make your own!
4 gifme
4 https://github.com/holman/gifme
So easy:
gifme ~/Desktop/*.jpg
You now have a handsome animation at ~/Desktop/animated.gif