Turn Any YouTube Video Into A GIF By Just Adding “GIF” To The URL. Want to turn something on YouTube into a GIF, but don’t want to futz with downloading third-party apps or digging around for an online converter? Here’s a handy, easy to remember trick: just add “GIF” to the beginning of the URL. After “www.” and before “youtube.com” Like so: So, for example, you’d turn: www.youtube.com/watch? Into: www.gifyoutube.com/watch? And hit enter. To be clear, this isn’t an official YouTube tool (though I’d still argue that YouTube really, really ought to build one) — so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t work forever , particularly if YouTube’s legal team gets too bummed about the use of their trademark right in the domain.
One catch: in the current build, you can set the start time and GIF duration, but you can’t get super precise about it. [Via HackerNews] Free Online Image Editor. How to Pronounce GIF. Battle Over 'GIF' Pronunciation Erupts. Video It has been called “The Great Schism of the 21st Century” and “The Most Absurd Religious War in Geek History.” The debate over how to pronounce GIF, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format, re-emerged this week when Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the widely used Web illustration, declared it should be pronounced “jif,” like the brand of peanut butter, rather than with a hard G sound. He made the statement first in an interview with The New York Times, then in an acceptance speech at the annual Webby Awards on Tuesday, where he received a lifetime achievement award. Mr. Wilhite incited a debate that generated 17,000 posts on Twitter, 50 news articles and plenty of tongue-in-cheek outrage.
“You can have my hard ‘G’ when you pry it from my cold, dead hands,” Tracy Rotton, a Web developer from Washington, D.C., wrote on Twitter. “Nannernannernanner,” wrote one person on Twitter. Photo So what is going on? Mr. The first image he created was a picture of an airplane. Tuesday night, Mr. Quand le créateur du gif est enfin récompensé.