Communicating with

GIFs⚡️talk #NSSpain14

BONO ESTENTE

Why use GIFs?

Why use GIFs?

4 it’s like emoji, but more expressive

Why use GIFs?

4 a picture says a thousand words

4 beats typing

4 humour!

Why use GIFs?

4 you can use the actual gif image

4 iMessage

4 mail

4 warning: gifs tend to be big

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 EXCEPT FACEBOOK

Why use GIFs?

4 Also great in work related communication

4 chatrooms (Stack, Hipchat, ...)

4 lovely in commit messages

4 works great for PRs

Why use GIFs?

4 Gifs of cats. Nuff said.

No really, they're great for all sorts of stuff

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

Manage your urls

4 use original URL:

4 fast for you (no extra work)

4 fast for viewer (may be cached)

4 linkrot!

Manage your urls

4 Upload image to "managed" storage:

4 dropbox

4 cloudapp

4 S3

4 your-own-domain.io

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

*justin gif*

Tools

4 Make your life easier

4 Use the correct tool for you

4 easy to find, easy to copy

Tools - Mac

4 Alfred

4 Boom

4 Gifwit

4 GIFs

Alfred

4 Add gifs as clipboard snippets

4 Use the 's' shortcut to find snippets

4 http://alfredapp.com

4 Needs Powerpack!

Boom

4 Snippets from the commandline

4 Great if you're a Terminal person

4 http://github.com/holman/boom

Gifwit

4 App store app ($2.99)

4 http://gifwit.com

4 url + keywords

4 preview!

GIFs

4 Open source app by @orta

4 repository of gifs

4 WIP but definitely useable ;)

Tools - iOS

4 iOS text shortcuts

4 Popkey

Tools - iOS text shortcuts

4 tedious to manage

4 no spaces in shortcuts

4 better than nothing

Tools - PopKey

4 Gif keyboard for iOS8

4 http://popkey.co

4 "Coming soon"

Sources

4 Reddit

4 http://reddit.com/r/gifs

4 http://reddit.com/r/michaelbaygifs

4 "Specialized" sites

4 http://replygif.net

4 http://reactiongifs.com

4 http://giphy.com

Sources

4 ALL THE Tumblr BLOGS

4 Google Image Search

4 Search tools - Type - Animated

Make your own!

4 gifme

4 https://github.com/holman/gifme

So easy:gifme ~/Desktop/*.jpgYou now have a handsome animation at ~/Desktop/animated.gif

Thanks!@inferis ~ http://inferis.org