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GIF Patent To Expire, Will PNG Survive?
News Unisys put the kibosh on using GIF in freeware," said Glenn Randers-Pehrson, editor of the PNG specification and a part-time high-tech munitions engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
[June 9, 2003, 12:24]
EximiousSoft GIF Creator
Downloads EximiousSoft GIF Creator is an easy and powerful tool for creating high quality and impact GIF animations. Whats more automatic optimization delivers the smallest size GIF files but keeps all original images quality.
[May 11, 2008, 21:46]
Video To GIF Converter
Downloads Video to GIF Converter is a powerful tool to convert video file to animated GIF file and enables you to add over 50 effects to the GIF file. It provides a built-in player that allows you to select the section as you view the clip.
[May 4, 2008, 17:47]
EximiousSoft GIF Creator
Downloads EximiousSoft GIF Creator is an easy and powerful tool for creating high quality and impact GIF animations. Whats more automatic optimization delivers the smallest size GIF files but keeps all original images quality.
[April 8, 2008, 0:46]
PNG Is A Superior Format To GIF
Talkback PNG is a superior format to GIF, and is nigh-universally supported. This article may as well be called "buggy whips NOW finally come in taupe" -- in the 21st century, GIF is completely irrelevant.software reviews
[May 1, 2007, 3:11]
E-Gif Aims To Make Government Interoperable
News The National Computing Centre, an independent membership organisation set up to promote effective use of IT, and the Institute of IT Training, the world's first professional body for IT training, have jointly won a £1.2m deal to run an...
[May 12, 2004, 12:30]
DemoCharge 2005
Downloads Create Flash, Java, animated GIF, and executable demos for inclusion in animated e-mails, documents, and help files. Replace static screenshots with GIF animations recorded by capturing your desktop. After recording, generate the animated Flash...
[September 24, 2005, 4:16]
Webzaam
Downloads Create your GIF very easily with Webzaam, capture images and videos on Youtube, Dailymotion, and any Web site and use it in your favorite messenger. You can zoom, and capture multiple sequence into one single Gif animation, it's amazing.
[May 4, 2008, 17:04]
Fireworks At Macromedia
News Currently, designers may find themselves needing several applications to create one animated GIF. Macromedia says Fireworks simplifies the creation of GIF animations by providing a full set of tools in one package, with good facilities for editing...
[March 19, 1998, 9:28]
PHP Exploit Code Found On Image-hosting Site
News Security researchers have found PHP exploit code embedded in a GIF on a major image-hosting site. Once this type of malicious GIF is uploaded to a server, it can cause havoc by remotely allowing more exploits to be deployed on the system, said...
[June 21, 2007, 14:10]
ActMask Document Converter X
Downloads ActMask Document Converter X is an easy way to convert any printable file to PDF, EMF, SPL (Print Spooling file), TXT, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIF, TGA, or PCX format. Version 5.3 upgraded virtual printer driver and allows user to export GIF file from...
[March 21, 2008, 9:31]
Free Xara Download Builds Web Graphics
News It also includes CorelXARA code allowing users to export anti-aliased GIF and JPEG images and create small-footprint vector graphics that can be used with the Xara plug-in for Navigator and Internet Explorer.
[February 4, 1997, 14:42]
W3C Rejigs Image Format
News The patent, for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, a compression algorithm, forms the basis of the popular GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) design. Once LZW patent-owner Unisys announced its intention to seek royalties for the use of GIF graphics in...
[November 12, 2003, 12:20]
Bacros Virus Targets Hard-drive Destruction
News On the first of any month, the virus will overwrite all gif files with a gif that says 'Kuole Jehova' - 'die Jehovah' in Finnish. Like pixie boots and Bros, some things are better off left in the 1980s - like viruses that spread via floppy discs...
[October 14, 2004, 17:15]
Malware Records Banking Passwords
News Researchers at the Internet Storm Centre studied the Trojan horse file, called "img1big.gif," which was provided by the dot-com. Because it carries a .gif file extension, the Trojan horse appears to be a graphic in a compressed format commonly...
[June 30, 2004, 8:55]
JPEG Committee Refutes Patent Claim
News It is not clear whether Forgent would follow the lead by Unisys, which owns a key patent used for GIF image compression, and seek royalties from Web sites that use images created using the algorithm. Unisys had originally said it did not require...
[July 22, 2002, 10:47]
PHP5 - MIME Type Quirks
Blog Now within your PHP file you can do the following: finfo = finfo_open( FILEINFO_MIME, "C:/PHP/magic/magic" ); mimeType = finfo_file( $finfo, "C:/PHP/php.gif" ); finfo_close( $finfo ); echo $finfo; should display image/gif
[April 23, 2008, 0:55]
Microsoft Adds IP Indemnity To Linux Fight
Talkback Even going back to the LZH/GIF Unisys patents http://web.archive.org/web/20020806173115/http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/ Microsoft's license does NOT extend to software developers or third parties who use Microsoft toolkit, language...
[November 10, 2004, 9:13]
SBNews News Robot
Downloads The program works with all types of files, including JPEG/GIF/BMP images, MP3/WAV audio files, AVI/MPEG movies, RAR archive files. Download and decode files from binary newsgroups. Thumbnail viewer displays images in real-time as they are...
[June 23, 2007, 2:16]
Zan Image Printer
Downloads Installed as a virtual printer driver, Zan Image Printer enables you to convert any printable document into a standard bmp/gif/jpeg/jpg/2000/pdf/tiff/png image. The converted image retains all of the information from the original file and can be...
[April 22, 2008, 1:31]
