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San Diego Rock n' Roll Marathon

The one week countdown officially starts today for San Diego's biggest and most exciting running event. The expo will be held downtown, at the San Diego Convention Center. We will be launching the brand new iStik for the 3rd generation iPod nano at this event. Come visit us and be the first to get your new iStik case at booth #506.

iStik for 3rd Gen Nano Pre-Orders

We are anxiously awaiting the release of the next product in our iStik line of magnetically fastening cases for the iPod nano. If you would like to reserve a case before they sell out, please send your name and contact info to stikit@goistik.com and we will put your name on our waiting list and contact you the day it is released and available for purchase. Those on our waiting list will be assured to get their iStik as soon as the ink dries! Price:$26.95

MAY iSTiK ROCKSTAR OF THE MONTH

iStik and Parkour! Check out the iStik on his left shoulder. Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK) is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment—from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls—and can be practiced in both rural and urban areas. Parkour practitioners are referred to as traceurs, or traceuses for females. You may have seen this sport at the beginning of Casino Royal and several internationally aired Nike commercials.

Amgen Sports Expo 2008

iPod Nano with Magnets?

Myths busted! Magnets zap your data? See what this article from PC World reveals...

For venerable floppies, this statement holds true. We placed a 99-cent magnet on a 3.5-inch floppy for a few seconds. The magnet stuck to the disk and ruined its data.

Fortunately, most modern storage devices, such as SD and CompactFlash memory cards, are immune to magnetic fields. "There's nothing magnetic in flash memory, so [a magnet] won't do anything," says Bill Frank, executive director of the CompactFlash Association. "A magnet powerful enough to disturb the electrons in flash would be powerful enough to suck the iron out of your blood cells," says Frank.

The same goes for hard drives. The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate. "In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."

Want to erase data from a hard drive you plan to toss? Don't bother with a magnet. Overwrite the data that is stored on the media instead. For flash, fill up the drive with anything, like pictures of your beloved dachshund. Unlike with magnetic media, from which experts can usually recover at least some overwritten data, once new data is written to flash media, the old data is gone forever. To overwrite the contents of a hard drive, try Eraser from Heidi Computers.