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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

  5. MJ says

    TOUCH ME! I do not have an iPhone but I have played Paper Toss on my friend’s phone and it is ADDICTING! Love your house and your blog!!

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  6. Dawn says

    TOUCH ME!

    My fave iPhone app is Simplify – play music stored on my home PC while out and about. Or the Facebook app (where I got my YHL update!) and the Pocket Cocktails app. LOL

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  9. kickymarcia says

    Touch me!
    My fave iphone apps are huffpo, facebook and nytimes. I’m a news junkie so huffpo and nytimes satisfy my constant craving for current events.

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  13. Alicia A says

    TOUCH ME

    No iPhone here but I would want an app that wrote research papers for college! It would help me out oh so much!

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  15. Megan says

    TOUCH ME

    My favorite app is solitaire, but if I could invent a miracle app, I’d make one to write my dissertation for me!

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  18. Kevin M says

    TOUCH ME!

    So funny, we’re actually planning on buying Corian counters tomorrow night. This app would have come in handy instead of hauling a kitchen cabinet door to the store to match up with samples.

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  21. Grace says

    TOUCH ME!

    I use the level when I don’t feel like running to the basement for the real one. It’s a good subsitute when hanging small frames!

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  23. Holly says

    Touch me!!!

    I use my eBay and facebook apps the most right now. Love that you posted about the above apps.

    If you get a chance please post more cool ones you find out about from these comments. I have a feeling I’m not going to get a chance to go through all the comments you’re going to get on this one.

    Thanks

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  28. tiffany says

    TOUCH ME!!!
    i don’t have an iPhone so i don’t have a favorite app, but i’d like one that counts calories and balances my checkbook! 2 tasks that could be made a lot more fun with an iTouch! :)

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  31. denisef in c'ville va says

    TOUCH ME … I would love an app to help me put outfits together — some kind of database w/ photo images … but with a mind of its own, ‘cuz i want it to put outfits together for me that i’d never think of!!

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  32. Maria Pontillas says

    TOUCH ME

    I’d love a weekly meal planner app that would generate a grocery list so I could send my husband to the store with it.

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  33. Cheryl Provence says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I don’t have an Iphone, but if I could design the perfect app, it would figure out my grocery list from my recipes, and find the best prices for the things on my grocery list.

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  35. Katy says

    TOUCH ME (please?).

    What a great idea! The iTouch will soon be like the cell phone…we will all have one. My daughter has an app. That has a level on it – very handy.

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  37. Lisa H. says

    TOUCH ME

    If I could create my own miracle app, I think I’d like to have something that mimics my Moleskine planner, including the ability to write and doodle in it with a stylus. I’m a college student who’s sometimes prone to forgetting due dates, so I’d also like for the planner to unobtrusively remind me of things without me having to open the app (I sometimes forget to check my planner!)

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  41. April says

    TOUCH ME!!!
    An app for choosing my outfits in the morning. You upload what you have and it matches outfits for you. Ahhhh, doesn’t that sound nice!

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  43. Vanessa says

    TOUCH ME! I don’t have an iphone or itouch (poor me!) but if I did I would want an app that rigs Random Integer to always PICK ME!

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  46. Megan says

    “TOUCH ME”
    I dont have a favorite app yet b/c i dont have an itouch. but if i win i promise to tell you what BECOMES my favorite :)
    although, my dream app would be an app that would put together outfits out of the clothes i already own

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  47. Jennifer says

    TOUCH ME!
    I don’t have a favorite app as I don’t have an iPhone/iTouch. Benjamin Moore ColorCapture sounds very handy. I’m somewhat paint color obsessed these days.

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  48. Cess says

    Touch Me!!!

    I would love an Iphone app that allowed me to catalogue my wardrobe abd put outfits together anywhere…so i see what I have!!

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