I needed to create a .gif animated file, so i googled for "gif animation". I downloaded one of the first (shareware) products and ended up with something that looked interesting. But it couldn't make decent resizes of windows, and the thumbnail animated gif came out rubish.
So,i was looking for other programs to do so, and found that the gimp can do it. I also found an interesting tutorial on how to do it.

I thought you might be interested, and i'd like to know if there are better alternatives.

(btw.. the final result is at the bottom of gridmove's page: http://jgpaiva.dcmembers.com/gridmove.html)

Just some minor usability stuff, from a regular user, that i thought i should post before i forget them. ;)

When opening the shell menu on one item and selecting something from it, possibly farr should close itself, so that it's not in front of what you've just opened.

As right now there's no defined action for drag+drop into the main window, maybe that action could be "create new alias" with the dropped file as parameter for the new alias.

Ok... You use opera and gmail?
What's the single thing that most anoys you about gmail?
Wait... Don't tell me... It's the damn tab always gaining focus after the gmail page has opened!

Ok, so, here's the solution: go to:

Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> JavaScript options -> Allow raising of windows
And no more of that anoying behaviour!!

(found here)