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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. Kellie says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iPhone and the only app I know is Shazam, so…yeah. This whole blog entry is extremely dirty (I snickered).

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  7. Raven Mathis says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iTouch or iPhone, but I do have a myTouch and my favorite app on that is the “Fx Camera.” It shoots in all fun modes, almost like applying a PS action to your phone’s camera!! As an avid photog, this is a must have for those awful cell phone photos. At least I can have fun while taking them.

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  8. Abby says

    Yes, I, too, would take an app that would fold my laundry AND put it away…is that possible?

    Thanks for the great giveaway! Touch me, baby!

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  9. athena says

    TOUCH ME :)

    An application that would compare prices of products based on zip code…..we could call it “iprice”

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  10. Sara says

    TOUCH ME!

    My favorite app is called flight control. It puts air traffic control at your fingertips and sadly it can keep me entertained for hours. But the deal is unbeatable at only $1.99!

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  11. Julie says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t already have an iPhone or an iPod Touch. (In fact, my old iPod Mini just recently died it’s final death – as in, I’m not taking it to the Apple store to be resurrected again). So all the apps would be fun and totally new to me!

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  13. Shelley says

    TOUCH ME….

    I would love am app that would solve calculus for me about now. This is my study break from my homework – trying to take my first graduate class and first class in 5 years!!!

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  22. Grace N. says

    TOUCH ME
    I would love an app. that would let me easily track my grocery lists from week to week – prices too.

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  25. lisa phil says

    “TOUCH ME”

    I’d like to build an app that would turn the phone screen into a mirror! beats having to pull one out of my purse!!!

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  30. Jess Good says

    TOUCH ME!!!
    I don’t have an ITouch but I would love to have an app that pays bills for me on time and magically refills my bank account after. Wishful thinking!!!

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  33. chacha says

    TOUCH ME!!!

    Just like my comment on Katie’s blog for this thing, I have no apps – I am not an iPhone-r. And seriously? Whatever I think of for an app, likely, the iPhone commercial voice will reply: “There’s an app for that.”

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  36. Heather says

    TOUCH ME! I would love an app that kept track of everything I’ve spent and arranged it by dewey decimal number…Cold medicines in the 618s, techie equiptment in the 004s. Library lovers would jump! jump! Jump!

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  38. qenohrts says

    “Touch Me” . . . so I can make the final decision of what I want for a kitchen countertop since i have been “deciding” for 5 years.

    I would make an app that would show me the nearest restaurants at our current freeway location when on a roadtrip.

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  42. Lindsay L says

    Touch Me!!! My miracle app would be one that keeps track of all the food I have in my house and then tells me what I can make for dinner. It could also text my husband to tell him what to go get at the grocery store on his way home. Wow, that’d be so awesome!

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  43. kelly says

    TOUCH ME :)

    um, i don’t have an i phone, but if i did i’d want an app to make it dog-teeth repellent (i’ve lost more than one phone to puppy-chewing!)

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  44. Sunny says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iPhone, just got an iPod this year for my birthday… slowing getting into the present day with electronics!! Would love to check out the iTouch and get to play with all these apps I keep hearing (and reading) about! Sorry I can’t share one with you, but if I could make one up it would do my farming on Farmville (facebook game) for me! It’s so addictive, I just don’t always have the time. ;-)

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  45. Aimee says

    Touch Me! :)

    Any app would make my life better right now because I don’t have a single app to my name. Old tech at our place. But I do love the idea of the app that lets you track your pet’s vet information and medications to make vet visits easier.

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  46. Diane Hutchings says

    Touch Me!!

    LOVE the Scrabble app on the iphone, but my hubby loves it more because he doesn’t have the play the game with me!

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  49. Theresa Kennedy says

    Touch Me!

    My dream app would walk our dogs, but only first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

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