What is the Tour of OC?
Today, June 30, 2010, Long Boards Ice cream is launching a social location challenge called the Tour of OC using location sharing service Gowalla and 20 spots around Orange County. To participate in the tour, all you need is a mobile phone (preferably a smartphone such as an iPhone, Blackberry, Android, or webOS) and the will to go out and check out those spots. Some of the spots you can check into on this trip are the Orange County Register, Angels Stadium, Huntington …

Check it out. WalkScore.com.

It’s refreshing and great exercise. And if you’re like me, you get lost in your own thoughts whenever you go for a walk, but where is there to go?
Are there any parks nearby? Bars and restaurants to hang out with the friends? Or how about a nearby grocery store?
I love the idea of living an in urban environment where everything is walking distance, and anything not is easily accessible through public transportation. Unfortunately, living in Southern California, this lifestyle is almost non-existent, especially living in Orange County. …

As promised on yesterday’s post “ We are doing things different on #FollowFriday ” we are going to recommend an interesting person to follow on Twitter and highlight them a bit more here on VitaminOC.
Our #FollowFriday recommendation for this week is Kevin Sablan (@ksablan)

Kevin has been one of @VitaminOC ‘s followers from its initial stages. He is currently the leader of the web task force at the Orange County Register. If you have ever wondered who is the person behind Orange County Register’s Twitter presence- well, Kevin  is the “go-to” guy of social media, and …

As students, studying about the world and all of it’s contents in the classroom is never quite enough to give us a vivid picture of life and all that’s to be desired.  We want to see and experience things ourselves before we buy into the images that are fed to us.  So, we study abroad, backpack through Europe, blah blah blah, you know the drill.  Often, we look so far outside of ourselves for answers, that we forget to keep it close to home.  The question is: what is the …

We held a contest a week or so ago with UPrinting, an online printing company. They sponsored a giveaway where two lucky vitaminOC readers could win a FREE 16×20″ poster print.
It was a tough decision between all of your awesome ideas but I had to narrow it down to two for the contest.  (Check out some of the comments here!) Aaand here they are:
Winner 1:
Trakix said:

I’d probably make a print of this awesome X-Men poster my buddy did. He took all 12 of the guys in our group …

You know that the vitaminOC staff loves free stuff and we know you do too. So, we’ve got an awesome thing going here: UPrinting, an online printing company, is sponsoring a giveaway where two lucky vitaminOC readers will win a FREE 16×20″ poster print. Does that sound awesome or what? Ready to enter?
You can enter in two ways:
1. Leave a comment explaining what you would do with your poster print. (creativity and humor may help!)
2.  Write a post on your blog that links back to this post and UPrinting.com and …

We at vitaminOC love tech-related stuff. We also love business cards. Put them together and you get Contxts. Contxts is currently a public alpha service that allows you to create and receive SMS business cards.
The service is pretty simple. You send a username to Contxts at 50500 and you receive a twitter-length message of 140 characters that the user chooses. The second way of doing it is by sending “send ‘recipient’s number’” to 50500. I chose to put my name, mobile, email, twitter, and a link to this blog on …