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Always running out of juice with your devices?

I know I am, especially when I'm travelling.  That's why I love Anker products (ianker.com).  They have big battery capacities, numerous ports and are stylish!  And definitely cheaper than the stuff you find at the apple store!

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Regis Haegler Education Information

Regis Haegler graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Finance.  Regis Haegler also obtained an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in Finance & Entrepreneurship.

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Regis Haegler Employment Information

Regis Haegler works as a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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How to increase the storage capacity of your iphone/ipad by Regis Haegler

Some consumers fault Apple for not allowing USB ports and devices on the iphone and ipad to extend the storage of their devices. 

An elegant solution is to use cloud services like Dropbox, Sugar Sync, or Skydrive, but these will cost you a lot in terms of bandwidth use (and dollars!), especially if you want to play movies.

The best alternative is to use wifi drives, like the Kensington Wi Drive (16 or 32 Gigs) or the Seagate Go Flex Satellite.  Here’s how they work: they emit a wifi signal that your iphone/ipad can pick up and stream from.  You choose the wifi signal of the device, then use the vendor specific app, and you can watch movies or download other content from the device provided it can play on the ipad/iphone (for example, mp4 files would be fine, but AVI files would need to be converted to mp4).

The Kensington drive is cheap, about $40 on Amazon for the 16 Gigs version, or about $80 for the 32 Gigs version.  Compare that to Apple charging about $100 for each 16 Gigs of extra storage on its products.  The Seagate drive is more expensive (about $180 on Amazon) but it has huge capacity of 500 Gigs.  This drive could become your backup drive for important files and tons of media, and you can take it anywhere with you and access its contents from your ipad/iphone.  Neat!

A few shortcomings I’ve experienced about each drive:

1)   The Kensington drive uses an old format and you can’t store on it any file more than 4 Gigs.  Not a problem per se since movie files should be less than that, even formatted in very high quality. 

2)   Also, the Kensington drive doesn’t allow any long file names because of the antiquated file format used.  If you try to transfer a PDF with a long file name from your Mac, the file name will be truncated, which can cause issues to differentiate files if they start with the same characters.

3)   The Seagate drive takes a while to update its file directory.  You may add files or folders from your Mac but you may not see the files/folders from your iphone/ipad.  

Overall, the Kensington is a good choice for movies, provided you don’t need your entire movie collection with you.  If you have files with long names, avoid the Kensington and go for the Seagate drive and but be patient with its update process.

Enjoy your increased storage!

Regis Haegler

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Favorite Japanese language iphone apps by Regis Haegler

Here are my favorite iphone apps to learn Japanese:

iknow: great flash card application to learn 6000+ words that nicely complements their web site (iknow.jp) for learning on the go

Japanese: great dictionary application with many entries (including conjugated verbs) and ability to input in many different ways, including romaji

ikana: nice application to learn hiragana and katakana

(Remembering the) Kanji: the book presents an easy way to learn Kanji fast and this app complements it nicely with an effective quiz feature based on the chapters in the book

AccelaStudy: an app to learn words, it presents many sample sentences with sound (ie read out loud)

Enjoy and ganbatte!

-Regis Haegler

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Essential tech travel tools by Regis Haegler

When I traveled in Japan for 2 weeks last year not knowing much of the language or sights yet, the following tools were very helpful to me:

1) my ipad with Google Maps and kindle with Japanese travel books — all the maps I would need in a tight package; of course Google Maps doesn’t work without internet, so tool #2 was my best friend

2) wifi router from http://www.pupuru.com — very fast service (40+ Mbs, similar to Verizon LTE here in the US) and GPS too!  great for Google Maps so that I know where I am going after I get off the train and photos were geo-tagged!  And check out japan-guide.com to get the details of the sights and how to get there

3) isound battery — this giant battery enabled me to have my wifi router always on in my backpack and have access to email, maps, websites all the time and recharge my iphone/ipad when I needed to.  With my ipad 1, the powerful battery could charge my ipad 1 completely!  Check out my Amazon review here too:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R33IMURN39X337

I would not have been able to enjoy as many sights without these 3 tools! 

Enjoy!

-Regis Haegler

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Useful Resources to learn Japanese by Regis Haegler

I have found the following resources useful in learning Japanese:

1) Vocabulary: iknow.jp

This resource (website, iphone app) has it all!  You can learn 6,000 words in 100-word increments.  It offers pronunciation, sample sentences (very useful!), and your choice of alphabet (Kanji, hiragana / katakana, romaji).  It keeps track of your progress so that you end up mastering those challenging words!  And it syncs very well across multiple platforms (website, iphone app, ipad app).  Monthly subscription is cheap too, about $12.

2) Grammar  / cultural insights

 JapanesePod101.com has tons of lessons you can listen anywhere, ideal for commuting, from beginner to advanced lessons.  Their lessons cover formal and informal ways of speaking, which many strict textbooks don’t.  The lessons are fun and their lesson PDFs and lyrics note (on iphone) are useful.

3) Hiragana / Katakana

I’ve been delaying my studying of writing in Japanese, relying on romaji as I want to focus on being able to speak.  However, when you’re in Japan and want to read basic things (menus, train station signs), a working knowledge of writing can soon become essential.  Several resources have been helpful:

a)    Kana Pictographix by Michael Rowley (you can find it on Amazon)

b)   Dr. Moku’s iphone apps (one for hiragana, another for hiragana)

c)    ikana iphone app (good for quizzing)

d)   iknow (see vocabulary buiding section), with hiragana/katakana setting on instead of romaji

4) Kanji

"Remember the Kanji" (book on Amazon + iphone app) makes it easier to learn writing by studying families of elements rather than memorizing each kanji separately.

5) Dictionaries on iphone/ipad

“Japanese” is my favorite dictionary app as you can write in romaji, and it handles conjugated verbs too and has many entries.  Midori may be good too for advanced level people with Kanji knowledge, but I haven’t reached that level yet to recommend it.

I hope these resources will help you learn Japanese faster!  Ganbatte!  

Regis

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Introduction by Regis Haegler

Hello!  As I start this blog, I hope to provide useful information about my 3 passions: Finance, Technology, and Japan.

Finance, because it is my career and I love advising executives of private companies on growing their startup and making it (more) profitable.

Technology, because I am fascinated by innovation and its positive impact on our life and lifestyle.  It's what allows our civilization to progress, be more comfortable, and enjoy life even more!  And it's fun to play with new things too and keeps the brain sharp!

Japan, because I love its culture, food, beautiful places, language... and my wife is Japanese! :)

OK, that is it for my first post!

-Regis Haegler

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