Having used MediaTemple's hosting options for quite some time, we've built up a fair amount of experience working with their (dv) servers. Every now and again you may find it necessary to extend the core functionality of the pre-compiled PHP supplied with the (dv) server using PECL extensions to give your apps that little bit more of a cutting edge.

There is a quick and easy way to insall the PECL modules on your (dv) server: pecl install [extension]. However, if for whatever reason this does not work for you, this guide documents a manual installation method.

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We post a lot of links to some really useful, surprising, and sometimes just plain funny sites on Twitter. We want to share some of our Twitter chatter on Liquidicity. We know you'll find (at least some of) what we share useful, so now you can pick up the best bits from the same place.

• Carsonified - 10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups: http://is.gd/2oAT4
• Sketchbook specifically for iPhone UI design: http://is.gd/2oPyS
• Twitterrific 2.1 now available!
• Can you grill a bratwurst? - another extremely useful iPhone app: http://is.gd/2oRkL
• Walt Mossberg Mosspuppet lost in time warp (made me laugh): http://is.gd/2oT9s
• The Anatomy of a Corporate Site - by Build Internet: http://is.gd/2p06p
• HeyZap now giving publishers a cut of earnings - these guys are definitely going places: http://is.gd/2p4ln
• Wow is that what a Chinese lesson in Marketing looks like? http://bit.ly/2y9bNW
• Mark Boulton - new shoes, new blog: http://is.gd/2q4vk
• Beautiful typographic inspiration - from old signs: http://is.gd/2qfvH
• Listen to your music from an old school cassette? There's an app for that: http://bit.ly/LDets (itunes)
• Some laughable fake Apple tablets from TUAW: http://is.gd/2rUpY
• Can't wait for Rework - the new book by 37signals: http://is.gd/2rWPH
• A Showcase of Fantastic Footer Designs: http://bit.ly/neSOc
• Wow - look at all the different preference panes in Firefox (large image): http://is.gd/2s5HW
• Preview of the unreleased Coudal.com redesign: http://is.gd/2s7Yx (Click "Cornify")
• Some really nice icons and other tasty goodies to download here: http://is.gd/2sg4K
• Carsonified - 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers: http://is.gd/2shO1
• Ramp Champ - beautiful promo page: http://is.gd/2sjhJ
• 50 of the best ever web design/dev/application icon sets: http://is.gd/2srHT
• Apple answers FCC's questions (qu 6 gives some juicy details on App Store approvals): http://bit.ly/S8mCP
• Pleased to release our latest set of 72 vector buttons - Monochromatic: http://is.gd/2szq1
• Wow this is an amazingly beautiful wooden chair - made from a single piece: http://is.gd/2sAQO (via @azaaza)
• Incredible vector drawing tool from 1963 - Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad: http://is.gd/2sD1Q
• Ajaxload - Pretty sweet AJAX "loading GIF" generator: http://is.gd/2sEA5
• Extremely useful article on Good Call-To-Action Buttons: http://bit.ly/AGKz
• 30 High Quality Paint & Pastel Textures: http://bit.ly/5mbQq
• Nice site - Quotes on Design: http://is.gd/2tzQN
• I check everyday for the Facebook 3.0 update. And everyday I'm disappointed. I should just assume it'll take 6 months to be approved.

If you found any of this vaguely useful, you may want to follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/gosquared

Stay up to date with the team:

James Gill (and all GoSquared news) - twitter.com/gosquared
Geoff Wagstaff - twitter.com/TheDeveloper
James Taylor (and the iPhoneFAIL blog) - twitter.com/iPhoneFAIL
Liquidicity (posts and news) - twitter.com/liquidicity

Here's our latest set of vectors for you all to enjoy - a set of 72 monochromatic vector buttons.

We've created 3 main styles of button - a standard "push" button, a "back" or "previous" button, and a "forward" or "next" button. From each of these, there's also a choice of corner roundness: 3px, 8px, or 15px.

There's a total of 8 different gradient styles for each button - in varying shades of the grayscale spectrum, so they should compliment the majority of pages / applications / projects they may need to be used in.

For those of you new to GoSquared - we design and engineer web applications for site owners to monitor their traffic and earn more money from their Site. We run Liquidicity, the blog on design & technology to share our thoughts and content with wonderful people like you in the hope that one day you'll use our products.

Get the Adobe Illustrator CS2 File (1.1MB)

Don't have Adobe Illustrator? Download the SVG.

As always, they're entirely free for you to download and do whatever you want with them. We appreciate a link back or mention wherever possible, because we know you're nice people, and love sharing stuff. Especially shiny buttons.

You may also like some of our other icon sets: iPod Vector Icons, 40 Vector Icons for your Photo Editing App, 85 Vector Window Icons, 40 Vector Icons for Apple Products, and many more.

We know it's been too long since our last icon set, but to fulfil your growing appetite for vectors, we recommend you check out Vectors on Fire, a new blog that's got a nice line up of free vectors that I haven't found on many other sites.

We like the site, and we wish them the best of luck in growing their worthy destination for vector resources. If you missed our iPod vector icons from a few weeks ago, they're available on Vectors on Fire right now.