Deja Vu

September 10th, 2008, by James Spada

Deja Vu is not just the name of a Denzel movie, however so, it was a good movie.

* Dictionary.com
* Our shared tacit knowledge knows what it is so we dont have to define it here for you.
* Just the GIF that reminds us of the Matrix.

come Ra

WeGIF.com -videos on making Animated Gifs

July 16th, 2008, by James Spada


Hello WeGIF members! We’ve created a few “How To” videos highlighting the features of the Animated Gif Creator, and also showing how to setup a webcam in case you’re having problems getting it to work.

Using the Web Cam to Gif.

Setting Up the Web Cam.

Using your pictures to Gif.

Light Magic Gif Style

July 1st, 2008, by James Spada

Here are some good examples of what you can do with WeGif. The WeGif Team made some really high quality gifs experimenting with cameras and light. Hopefully we will see some more of these gifs, since they came out so well.


Lou in the Dream Machine
lou dreaming

light sparks

James Spada, Lou, and Mugur Marculescu is the ghost moving around.

mugur by jim

Mugur spelling his name with his mind.

Mugur’s birthday is Wednesday so make sure you wish him a happy birthday if you see him.

jim's new outfit

James Spada with light hat and pants.

4 Easy Steps to get your Gif on your Myspace Page

June 27th, 2008, by James Spada

Animated Gif of how to quickly add your animated gif to your myspace page.


Steps are Outlined as follows

1. Click on the Copy HTML Code, the click on it(it will automatically select all) and right click copy.

2. Click on bookmark and share button, select myspace.

3. Window will open with myspace if your not signed in sign in.

4. Right click on the box and paste the html tag.  Select in the drop down where on your myspace page you want it to appear and your ready to go.

How to myspace your gif

Thank you to addthis for making this quick fix possible.

Uploading very large images now works!

June 27th, 2008, by Mugur Marculescu

Some of you couldn’t fully participate on WeGIF before, because the Flash Gif Creator just wouldn’t let you upload very large images (specifically image dimensions above 2880×2880 px). While it is still recommended to re-size images before uploading, since the transfer time to our severs will be much shorter, for some people this is not as easy to do as it sounds.

The Create page will now accept much larger image files than before and re-size them for you. If you happen to be someone with one of those new 12 megapixel cameras and take pictures on full resolution, and don’t know how to resize them, you can now still upload your files to WeGIF (as long as the file size is less then 10 megabytes) and create gifs.

If you know your way around Photoshop and iPhoto and wish to resize your images before upload, you can resize them to fit in a 500×500px box.

German Hot Dog

June 23rd, 2008, by James Spada


German Hotdog
Today the Wegif staff had hot dogs, they were delicious and reminded me of this German hot dog I ate in Potsdam, Germany.

Firefox 3 is out today.

June 17th, 2008, by James Spada

WeGif recommends using Firefox to view and use our site. While we optimize for all browsers we are excited that firefox 3 is out today. Please check out download Firefox 3.

For windows
For Linux
For Mac

The web will load faster.
For more reasons check out this webmonkey post.

3.7Design and AjaxLine Talkin Gifs

June 17th, 2008, by James Spada

Two articles on making animated gif menus using css.
3.7designs has an overview of using css and gifs to animate menus.
AjaxLine article talks about using CSS and animated gifs to animate menu.

“GIFs can still be a very powerful tool, and the fact that they have been long forgotten gives me an opportunity to brainstorm what you can do with them.” 3.7

“There was a time when the ability to animate GIF’s made web sites a little more fun… or horribly obnoxious. It seems that no one really harnessed the power of animated GIFs, and today the only place they seem to be used are in banner advertisements when flash isn’t available.” -AjaxLine

WeGif understands that no one really has harnessed the power of animated gifs and thats why we have created wegif.com.

The 3g Iphone is still not my N95.

June 11th, 2008, by James Spada

There has been an incredible amount of talk leading up to the new iphone release and there is still a strong buzz in the air. I do have to admit i am still not satisfied with the outcome of the release.
For the past several weeks i have heard the 9th of June several times, mostly from friends holding out for their brand to release something that makes them proud. A response to the silence caused by their realization that my N95 provides a greater amount of satisfaction then their iphone.

So i watched the release and I am not satisfied.
Michael over at TechCrunch wrote up a review on it, but it didn’t sell me. I understand he was saying about Technology, but i must admit the first time i went to Disney World i was disappointed. I grew up less then an hour from Cedar Point, home of the largest, fastest roller coasters. Disney World just didnt have those rides.

Brass Tacks
Yes, you finally have GPS good work. It should have come with GPS in the first one.
You are 37% faster than my N95, thats not an impressive figure. Twice as fast is a nice figure. Telling someone you can download something one and a third times faster not so impressive Steve.

Camera
The camera lens is an easy KO blow for the iphone, its obvious. Wired did a comparison of 5mp Camera phones last month, Iphone wasn’t listed, and still wont be listed if they do it again. Why? It doesn’t have a 5 Mega Pixel Camera.

Adobe Flash ?
Do you have it….

Speakers
If you get a chance play the same song on an Iphone and N95. Turn them Up, at about 40% you will overpower the iphone at full blast. I went camping last weekend with my family, and my sister told me to bring a radio. I told her i was bringing my phone, she thought i was was joking.

So i ask this, what do you want your phone to do?
For me thats simple. I want it to be the only device in my pocket.
No ipod, no camera, no gps, just my phone.
Thats why i have an N95.

More reasons not by an Iphone

What is nice is that while flash doesnt play on Iphones, at least Gifs do.

BMW GINA Animated

June 10th, 2008, by James Spada

Animated Photos of BMW GINA, BMW’s new Concept Shell.


Front View

BMW GINA front

Side View

BMW GINA SIDE

Lights

BMW GINA lights

Door

BMW GINA Door

This post was inspired by a 37 Signals post.