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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
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.
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.
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.
Jill O. says
TOUCH ME!
Amy G says
TOUCH ME!! I’d love to have an app to create outfits for me based on the clothes I already have in my closet. It seems like picking an outfit is the last thing I do when I’m trying to get out the door so I never have the time to mix & match the stuff in my closet.
Lindsay B, says
TOUCH ME! I’d love an app that could somehow scrape the frost off of my car every morning. It’s only starting to get cold out and I’m already tired of it!
Steve Ray says
TOUCH ME!!!
jerry says
TOUCH ME
I would like an app that give me reports on tidewaters and such for fishing the Gulf Coast
ann says
TOUCH ME
I want an app that forces people to mail stuff to Alaska for the same price as the Lower 48 (We ARE NOT, I repeat, ARE NOT a foreign country).
cheep3r5 says
TOUCH ME! TOUCH ME! pleeeez. Christmas would be early with an iTouch. W00T! =)
heather foster says
touch me
a simultaneous translater app that would translate
1. whiney child
2. whiney dog
3. load overhead announcements
4. english speakers with foreign accents that call on the phone from a loud resturant
Hilary says
Touch me!! I would love to be able to use the app that helps identify birdsong when out birdwatching.
les says
TOUCH ME
carbtracker
tracks net carbs, etc
thanks!
Lydia says
TOUCH ME! I love Shazam…it’s the app where you hold your phone to the speaker and it’ll identify the band playing the song, album title , and song name. I love that app!
Smitha says
TOUCH ME!!! My favorite app is Pandora. Great to listen to when I am working out. I really hope I win this. I don’t have an itouch or an iphone, but my husband has an iphone…and I very jealous of his toy!
Dee says
Touch me! Please help me leap into the 21st century, I have no iPod and no iPhone. I’d love an app that I could link to my bank account so I could see the break down of how I spend my money.
colleen allison says
TOUCH ME!
I don’t have an iPhone, but I would love an app that tells me where to find the best yard sales in my area. But it doesn’t stop there…it would help me avoid any yard sales where dusty dried flowers, light blue calico ducks, and baby walkers from 1973 are being sold. And it would steer me towards the yard sales that are selling my favorite vintage things like tin globes, electric fans and white matte pottery.
joan says
TOUCH ME!!! I love any app that helps me keep track of my to do list.
JennyA. says
TOUCH ME!
I would love an app that would reply to emails for me every once in a while.
Cheryl says
TOUCH ME!!
I think my miracle app would be doing my homework for me so I could spend more time with home improvement projects ;)
Bethany Joy says
TOUCH ME
My husband has an iphone… His fave app is Craigsphone :)
Jenny says
TOUCH ME!!!
I would love an app. that would transport me to the beach at the touch of a button. Imagine what relaxing lunch breaks you’d be able to have!
ulowery says
TOUCH ME!
I would love an app that tells me what I can make for dinner with 3-4 ingredients that I have on hand. An app that will wash my floors would be great too!
Margeaux says
TOUCH ME!!!!
Aaron says
TOUCH ME!
I want to win so I can use the ESPN radio app.
Deb says
TOUCH ME with the IPod please.
Alisa says
TOUCH ME
mrs.gardner says
TOUCH ME!! I would love to surprise DH for his bday next month with this! Awesome giveaway :)
Erin says
TOUCH ME!!!
I love Pandora! I don’t need to own all of the raunchy rap music that I love to run to, but with Pandora I get the perfect up tempo mix with lots of surprises new stuff that make my runs just fly by!
Michele says
TOUCH ME! I am currently iPhone-less so I can only dream of what fun apps I could download to make my life easier! :)
Monica says
TOUCH ME!
erica says
TOUCH ME!!
I don’t have any app knowledge and I’m not terribly creative – BUT the “TOUCH ME!” comment now has the spring awakening musical in my head….I’m sure it will remain for hours. (Thankfully I love it) ;-)
Just today my co-worker made fun of my pre-historic ipod….
Amanda says
Touch me!
I would want an app where I could keep track of my grocery list and share it with my boyfriend so that we’d never have to do the “I’m going to the grocery store, do you need anything” phone call again!
CM says
Touch me!
shelby m says
TOUCH ME!
Twitterific!
Heatherrrr says
TOUCH MEEEE!
great…now i have the spring awakening song stuck in my head.
i would thoroughly enjoy an app that would instantly give you the perfect thing to say when people put you in awkward situations…i’m terrible with that!!
charity says
“TOUCH ME!” i don’t have an iphone but if i could create an app, i would create one that would let me know when things i like go on sale
Kevin says
TOUCH ME!
I am entering this contest because my girlfriend’s sister has my old iPhone and I really want it back. (or do I want to give her my old iPhone while I upgrade!!!) My favorite app is “Things” because it keeps my to do list organized!
Lana says
TOUCH ME…please. ;) It’d be cool to have an app that lets you enter in everything in your fridge and then comes up with recipes based on what you’ve got in your fridge. Would be nice for students like myself! :)
Anne says
TOUCH ME!
I would LOVE to have an ITOUCH! I would love to use an app that would let me take a picture of the house and then change the color to see coordinating paint and trim choices!
Missy says
TOUCH ME! I would come up with an app to give me more hours in a day to get everything done. That means laundry done and put away, dinner ready, house tidied up, a newspaper that I’ve actually read instead of going into the recycle bin still rolled up, a stack of unread magazines on the coffee table. UGH. More time. Yup, that’s what I need.
Lynnita G. says
TOUCH ME!
I like the application called Red Lazer, that scans the barcodes and gives you name and best price of items on internet and stores, pretty cool.
Robyn says
TOUCH ME!!
The apps I use the most are all pretty standard: NYT, Yelp, Weather Channel. I’ve tried a lot of the “hot” apps and find I tire of most of them after only a week or two. I guess I’m boring! :)
Hillarie says
touch me. an app that would exercise for me
Samantha says
“Touch Me” shazam
rachel says
TOUCH ME! I don’t have an iphone, but I would definitely get one if there was an app to let the dog out in the morning.
Leslie says
TOUCH ME! :)
An app that would tell me it was ok to spend more $$$!
michelle in the rocky mountains says
Touch ME!!
I would love an app that did the laundry. Or, at least, reminded me to do the laundry. :)
Heather says
TOUCH ME!!
Shaunda Harris says
Touch me
Paula I. says
TOUCH ME!
I would love an Ipod touch…and my app would put clean laundry away! I don’t mind the folding but I dislike the putting away!
Katie says
TOUCH ME!!! I don’t have an iphone, I’m a Blackberry girl all the way, but if I did I would want an app that puts away the groceries for me. I hate carrying all the bags in and putting all the food away!
Jen Bishop says
TOUCH ME!!! No App phone here, but I would use a recipe app!