Giphy Cam takes the pain out of creating animated GIFs on the iPhone

If you're a fan of animated GIFs, you can now create your own GIFs in an easier than ever fashion on your iPhone thanks to Giphy Cam.

GIFYouTube turns any YouTube video into an animated GIF

Animated GIFs are a "plague" that continuously reminds me how on Earth do we still put up with a "last-century" obsolete technology to provide short animated images, instead of forcing everyone to agree on a new, more efficiente, standard for it. But as people say, "if you can't beat them..." Today I'll let you know how you can easily create a animated GIF anywhere, without any extra tools.

Animated PNGs

As you're probably aware, the GIF image format is quite "old" - however, it's still widely used throughout the Internet because a very simple, yet valuable, feature: animated GIFs.

These animated GIFs are part of Internet's History (for both Good and Bad) and are used in millions of web pages. Just check any forum, and you'll find GIF avatars with feature-length duration weighing several megabytes.... but we'll leave that for another day.

Well, it time to move ahead. The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) was created to overcome GIFs shortcomings, offering better compression rates, higher color depth, and now... animation as well. Soon, APNG (Animated PNGs) will replace current animated GIFs.

For now, just a couple of browsers support APNGs, namely FireFox 3 and Gran Paradiso Alpha 7, but other should soon follow.

Check more info and examples at AnimatedPNG.