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Fab Freebie: I Touch My Surface

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No, the title of this week’s freebie isn’t meant to be perverse. It’s just the clearest way to identify the DuPont giveaway that has already popped up on some of our favorite blogs. And now it’s here on YHL (insert party kazoo sound effect here). Ladies and gents, we present to you: the DuPont iPod Touch giveaway. That’s right, DuPont’s gonna hook one of you up with a free iPod Touch. Monday just got a little better, eh?

DuPont recently launched a new free iPhone and iPod Touch app called mySurface that’s designed to help you pick a countertop from within their Corian and Zodiaq line of products. The fun interface would’ve been great back when we were redoing our kitchen, if nothing else just to give us a sense of how many options were out there. So even though technology’s a bit too late for our renovation, we’re still getting great bathroom inspiration ideas from mySurface’s photo gallery:

ITouch MySurface

DuPont was even kind enough to hook us up with our own iPod Touch (now I’m almost as cool as my iPhone toting wife) to check it out and dig up some other helpful DIY apps to share with you guys. So here are the other home-improvement related apps that we’re digging:

We’ve been having lots of fun with Benjamin Moore’s ColorCapture app (also free). Using uploaded photos (or pics snapped with the iPhone’s camera) you find paint colors and color schemes to coordinate with your favorite fabric, painting or – well – photo of your dog on the beach. And though we haven’t used it yet, the 99-cent SwedeShop app is the unofficial Ikea organizer for the iPhone. So you can forget the golf pencil on your next trip- plus it automatically tallies your budget as you go.

ITouch BenMore Swede

We also got lots of tips about keeping notes and lists on your iPhone back on this post, so we’ve started to use Evernote (again, free). It’s like the Voice Memo and Notes tools that come already loaded on the iPod, but a bit more organized. Linked to an account on evernote.com, you can keep voice, text, photo and screen grab notes that can be labeled with tags, sorted by geo-tags and easily searched. We’ve also been enjoying craigsphone, the app version of craigslist. Nothing new in terms of content, but hunting for real estate, browsing local yard sales and perusing used furniture in need of a new home is almost easier on the iPod than the real web site. The app is free, but it certainly could end up costing us more as we discover new steals.

ITouch Evernote Craigs

But enough jibber-jabber. Here’s how you can win your very own iPod Touch:

  • PRIZE: An 8GB iPod Touch courtesy of DuPont and their new mySurface app
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “TOUCH ME” and…
  • BONUS QUESTION: …help us build our app collection by telling us your favorite iPhone app (if you’ve got one) OR if you could create your own miracle app, tell us what would it would do (balance your checkbook? get dinner ready? walk the dog?)
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, October 28th at 8pm EST
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
  • PRIZE SHIPS: USA only
  • USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!

Get more info on our freebies at our Giveaway FAQs page. Images courtesy of Apple.

Comments

  1. Olga says

    TOUCH ME
    I’m not too familiar with the apps but I know there is one on the Iphone where you scan the barcode of anything in a store, and it finds you the best deal in a store by you, or even online. Sounds like the coolest thing, and a time saver! I want that!

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  5. Aimee says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I promised myself that the moment our house sold I could buy a Touch….I’ve been waiting for months. Please put me out of my misery! Is there an app for that??

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  6. Letty says

    TOUCH ME!

    I would love a magical app where I could take a picture of something I like and it would tell me where I could buy it, or something like it, and for how much. So if I see a cute sweater I like on a tv show, I’d snap a pic and the app would tell me what stores carry it. Also, I could take a pic of an expensive piece of furniture and my app would kindly show me where a cheaper version lives. Oh, magical app… maybe one day?

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  7. Tara Farley says

    TOUCH ME!!!!!!

    My favorite app is called Loose It! Its a calorie tracker.

    My create your own app would help you created a grocery list that also tracked prices and deals from the specific store. That way you can stay on budget.

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  11. Jennifer says

    TOUCH ME!
    Sorry no iphone:(
    But if I had one I would definitely want an app that would do the dishes for me :)

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  16. Clare says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have any app-laden devices, but I’d love to use any of those recipe apps, where I could look up a recipe and its corresponding shopping list when I’m at the grocery.

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  17. Vika says

    Touch Me….I would love an app that can do room layouts. All I have to do is take a picture of a room (import it), enter measurements and be able to see a blueprint of my house. Then if I’m shopping, I can just enter a measurement of a piece of furniture, and see how it would fit in my room (all on the itouch)

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  19. Nutmegs says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I do now own an iPhone or iTouch, but I think I would create app to help me figure out the nutrition information for a recipe on the spot.

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  23. Jeannette says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have a favorite app because I have no iPhone and no iPod! How sad is that? See how bad I need one of these???

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  24. Stephanie N says

    Touch Me!!!

    I love the Sherwin Williams app. You can take a picture of something and the app will find one of their colors to match whatever you took a picture of. Say, you’re browing through an open house and love a wall color, snap a picture of it with your iphone and Sherwin Williams will tell you their paint color to match it.

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  27. Noelle says

    Touch me!

    I don’t have an iphone or itouch BUT my husband is addicted to the Major League Baseball app to watch his team live.

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  31. Amy Lytle says

    TOUCH ME…

    I don’t have an iPhone but if I DID and could design an app I think it would change diapers for me! That, or potty-train my son.

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  34. Sara B says

    TOUCH ME!!!

    I would love an app that would keep an inventory/ shopping list for food in my kitchen and make up recipe ideas for dinner.

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  36. Kalyn says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iPhone, but my friend has an app that will scan barcodes. I think it would come in so handy when you’re shopping and you can’t find a price listed anywhere or one of those scan-it-yourself things.

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  41. erin says

    Touch me!

    I don’t have one so I don’t know all the apps. But I’d like one to keep track of what I’m eating and my workouts. Thanks!

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  43. Aimee says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I don’t have an iPhone, but I’d have to say my dream app would somehow clean my sons’ bathroom, so I’d never have to do more than stick my arm in and wave the phone around!

    Thanks for hosting another great giveaway!

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  47. Jennifer Moreau-Cook says

    Touch me!
    I would love a recipe app where you could type in ingredients and it would make meal/recipe suggestions.

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  49. Katrina says

    TOUCH ME!

    I love Iphones, i don’t have one, my husband does! We love playing Scrabble 2 on the phone, he always beats me. But he gets more alone time with his phone to practice then I do! This would be a big help

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  50. Rhea says

    “TOUCH ME”

    I love “igrocery” that categorizes your shopping list by aisle depending what store you’re in (Wal-Mart, Meijer, etc.)

    It saves me loads of time!

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