- Jason Chen (Gizmodo.com)

1. It will help us understand the process of developing an application in general, a process that we may need to become familiar with in our future profession. While we may not be directly involved in its development in our future, understanding all the things that can go wrong, and right, will help improve any management opportunities we face.
2. It will give us a useful and/or fun application. There are plenty of things that we want our iPhones to do for us, but sometimes the offerings of the App Store are too expensive, general unknowns, poor implementations, or just plain ugly. By developing our own solution we will have the perfect harmony of cost, functionality, and aesthetics.
3. This application will offer us a cash generating opportunity. There’s no other way to look at it, the App Store can be a cash generating machine. Sure for every giant success story there is probably another 100 failures, but we are in a position that enables us to take a this risk will minimal financial loss.

While I can’t say if our endeavor will be successful in a purely fiscal perspective, I hope that we will gain valuable experience that could come in valuable later in our lives. Then again, I also hope that we can make $21,000 a day like the guy that created iShoot. I guess I should also discuss the matter of what name we should be developing under as well. We’ve considered using Bonsai Studios, but I guess we should check with the other parties involved.

In the following steps, I’ll help you set up your iPhone or iPod Touch that has the 2.0+ software update with the ‘pennstate’ wireless network on the Cisco VPN system.

1. Open the ‘Settings’ app from the home screen of your device. Once you get here, then select the ‘Network’ option.

2. Next, select the ‘VPN’ option on this menu.

3. Now just select ‘Add VPN Configuration’, and note that this is also the screen where you will turn the VPN on and off (it can also be done on main Settings screen once you add an option).

4. On the next screen, simply tap the IPSec button, and you should see the Cisco logo.

5. On this screen enter all the VPN credentials as listed, replacing the Account value with your Penn State Access Account ID (also your email address without the @psu.edu) and Password with the password for this account. The Group Name and Secret value are both ‘pennstate’, as shown below.

6. Once you have entered all the values, hit save and it will begin conneting to the VPN network. However, this will only work when you are connected to the ‘pennstate’ wireless networks around the University Park campus.