I made a button in Photoshop with an on and off state, and I thought about sharing it with you. Feel free to use it. Click here to download the original PSD file.

http://upstageapp.com/resources

An amazing collection of resources for iOS app designers from the developers of Boxcar. If you, like me, often design for these devices, you are going to love it.

Lately I’ve been pretty busy, especially thanks to FOWA and the upcoming SXSW, and my RSS reader is literally exploding; so I had to dive in for a little bit and I came back up with these seven pearls. If you are (or you want to be) an entrepreneur, you will learn a lot from these article:

• Customer Development for Web Startups
• Entrepreneurship, It’s Personal
• How to Save Money During the Early Days of a Startup
• The Entrepreneur Thesis
• Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
• Two different discussions about exits
• How to raise money without lying to investors

Do you have any article you would like to share about entrepreneurship? Post it in the comments!

Last night I gave a very basic presentation at the Design Miami Meetup about some of the new features offered by CSS 3. Here is the slide show:

If you want to learn more, you should look at these links:

• CSS3.info
• Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3
• CSS 3 Cheat Sheet
• Using CSS3 (video)

And of course the most boring one

• Cascading Style Sheets Current Work (W3C)

A while ago I thought about writing a simple cheat sheet for WordPress, mainly because I find myself looking for the same template tags over and over again.

Few days ago I stumbled on a couple of very well done WordPress cheat sheets that I’d like to share with you:

Liquidicity WordPress Help Sheet

Ekin Ertaç WordPress Cheat Sheet

Designing a WordPress theme for a friend, I had to design some icons for linking to the different social networks.

I’m usually pretty lazy as far as social media for my own projects (the one on this very same blog are a free set I found online), but this time, considering the social networks and services I had to add I decided that it was faster design them myself than look for them. And I had a chance to create one for my favorite photo sharing service: Pikchur.com.

If you like them, you can download them for free here: download icons.

There are several things that I never did like about the URL shortener business.

First of all, you never know how long these services will last. Tr.im’s surrender may lead to the If Tr.im kept their decision to shut down their service, we could have lost millions of links, unless some other company were to buy them out. You could try to use only extremely successful services like Bit.ly, but it will defeat its own purpose in the long run: Bit.ly is already using 5 characters after their URL, not making it that short anymore. If you go with less used services you might have shorter urls but you could end up using a service that, in few months, may be out of business.

On top of that, you are really wasting a lot of “link juice,” vital for ranking better on search engines. Even when you are linking to your own site, if you use these services, you are linking to them. And they can do whatever they want with that link. They can even decide to place your whole site into a frame, adding ugly ads at the top, or their own “toolbar,” like Digg did, without asking your permission; and there won’t be anything you can do about it.

The best solution to all these problems is to have your own shortener. You don’t need to be an expert developer to do it, you don’t even have to be a developer at all. There are several open source scripts and plugins to accomplish URL shortening. Here’s a short list of services I found:

• YOURLS – It’s probably my favorite and the one that will, very soon, power my own URL shortener. It supports custom keywords URLs, it has basic stats and an API. It also has its own WordPress plugin, which can automatically shorten your posts and links.
• Shorty – This URL shortener had a nice-looking admin interface, where you can edit and delete your URLs. It offers simple stats as well.
• PHPurl – Super simple PHP & MySQL script, it offers the option of choosing a custom keyword.
• phurl – If you are thinking of offering your shortener to the public, this script features CAPTCHA and re-CAPTCHA, just in case you fear bots.
• TightURL – This script offers some public protection as well. It checks submitted and accepted URLs against spam databases to prevent abuse by the Bad People of the Internet.