The cereal is made of rice grains that are cooked, dried and toasted, resulting in crisped rice. When milk or cream is added, the thin walls of the rice collapse, making the famous sounds Snap! Crackle! and Pop! Â® These sounds became the slogan for Rice KrispiesÂ® and was featured on radio ads such as this one:
The inventor of the Gif file has revealed that the world has been mispronouncing his creation. Steve Wilhite, who invented the Gif file in 1987, told the New York Times that the word is pronounced âjifâ not âgiffâ. âThe Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft âG,â pronounced âjif.â End of story,â he said.
Bitmap (CompuServe). GIF, or Graphic Interchange Format, is a file extension for an often animated raster graphics file and is the second most common image format used on the World Wide Web after JPEG. GIF uses the LZW compression algorithm and is owned by Unisys. Though Unisys licensing statement indicates a license is required to use GIF files, in practice they have not required it and many downloaders and website builders remain ignorant to the required license and GIFâs proposed patent-free replacement in PNG.