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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

  2. vanessa says

    Touch Me! This would be a huge leap in the tech. department for me…just upgraded from the old razor phone to a blackberry!

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  6. mary-beth says

    TOUCH ME! I would love an app that would show me what my baby looks like and how he or she is growing each day of my pregnancy.

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  7. Anna says

    Touch me!!

    I don’t have an iPhone, but the app I always enjoy on my friend’s phones is the Urban Spoon. Using the shake option always seems to make picking a restaurant much easier… I love a good decision engine. :) Can I get one of these for my job??

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  11. Danielle V says

    TOUCH ME!
    I would just love, love, love to have an iPod touch, then it would be glued to Pandora radio 24/7. Music all day catered to my liking?. . . . love it!

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  12. Kristin says

    Touch me.

    Well, I don’t have an iPhone but my husband does, and there are a number of apps I love, but since I like to cook, probably Epicurious.

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  13. Stevie Morgan says

    “Touch Me”… I would like to have the iPod Touch app to help me stay organized! Lord know I need it! :-)

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  14. MaryKate says

    Touch me!
    In a perfect world, the I need an app that could grocery shop, make dinner AND clean up too. That would be bliss!

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  15. Holly BG says

    Touch Me!

    Not an app girl – but a litter box cleaning app would be fab-u-lous. Off to do that nasty chore now… :c(

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  16. Vanessa says

    touch me

    My SO has an iphone, and both of us love Shazam! But I don’t love when he makes fun of my Shazam-less Blackberry :(

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  17. Alissa M says

    Touch ME, ME, ME!!!
    My miracle app would do the organizing and packing for our upcoming transatlantic move :-)

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  18. Shery J says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I would love a Favorite Book Series Update as a wish app. It should be able to update whenever any of my favorite authors have published a new book.

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  25. MissCaron says

    “TOUCH ME” and… if I could create my own miracle app, I would love to be able to take a picture of a room and have it help me try out different arrangements of furniture and color combinations!

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  26. Jessica Zwirble says

    TOUCH ME!

    And then maybe invent an app that will help me finish writing all these wedding thank-you notes… please! :)

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  27. Sarah says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I don’t have an iPhone, but it would be nice to have an app that would help me decide what to make for dinner (so sick of making that decision), and give me recipe suggestions

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  30. Starla says

    TOUCH ME!

    My favorite apps so far are iheartradio and Pandora. Both are great portals for listening to music on the go!

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  32. Christin says

    TOUCH ME!!!

    I don’t have an iPhone (yet…) but if I could make my own app it would do my laundry for me. We rent and have to pay for laundry in coin machines. I would love an app to do it for me – for free!:)

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  33. Jennifer says

    TOUCH ME! I don’t have any apps, but if creating a miracle one was possible, then I would make it a Genie app. I could only access it once a day, but when I did, I could ask for anything I wanted as long as it didn’t directly cost money. That would make me think of really good things to request (you know we’re all thinking “world peace”) and keep me from becoming the next Real Housewife…

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  34. Tina says

    Touch Me!

    I don’t have an iphone or anything touch, so I would love love love this prize! thanks for doing this giveaway!!!!

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  36. Kim l says

    TOUCH ME

    I don’t have an iphone but my friend showed me this application where you can scan a barcode of any item and then it’ll search for the cheapest price online! Shopping heaven :-)

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  40. Nelsie says

    I would love a countertop for my bathroom sink, that says “TOUCH ME”. I think it’s cool that the ipod has apps that helps with colors and paint and what not. I would love a app that would comb my hair like a superstar. I have curly hair and it’s a pain sometimes to maintain. But a app that would make me marvelous, would be superb!!!

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  49. Katie says

    TOUCH ME
    I don’t have an iphone but I would like a recipe organizer / shopping list where I can put my recipes and then make a list from them.

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