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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. Katie C. says

    Touch me YHL!
    I don’t have an iphone, but I would love an app that would give me style advice and help me use better the clothes I have in my closet. Basically a computerized stylist!

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  2. Andrew says

    TOUCH ME!

    I’d like an app that figures out where I spend time the most and then provides those as starting points when I want directions to some new place.

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  5. doahleigh says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did I’d like an app that emptied my dishwasher. I don’t mind loading it so much because that’s a gradual process – dirty a dish, put in the dishwasher. But the unloading happens all at once, and I dread it every time. Is there an app for that?

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  7. Angela says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t currently have an iPhone so no fave apps yet. I think a cool app would be one that lets me know what stores near me are having a sale. Is there one like that already?

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  13. Meghan says

    Touch me!

    I think we’re getting iPhones for Christmas, and I can’t wait!

    Apps I want:
    1) Something that will help me decide what to wear in the morning
    2) Craft show finder (for shows worth applying to, and not!)

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  19. kaush says

    TOUCH ME!!!

    My favorite app is the Chipotle app! No kidding. We love eating at Chipotle and their app makes it SO easy to order food. Now I am hungry!

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  20. Heather says

    TOUCH ME!

    My husband has had an iphone since they came out! We don’t know life without one anymore. Favorite app = mah jong!

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  21. Meg N says

    TOUCH ME!!

    I’d love an app that would put away my groceries for me. I love the grocery store, but I HATE having to put them all away. It’s hard for me to always find spaces for everything when I get home….

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  23. Stephanie H says

    Touch me. I don’t own an iPhone, so I don’t really know what kind of apps are out there or what would be my ideal one. Maybe book reviews when I’m at the library. Or a pattern finder when I’m browsing the yarn store and fall in love with something that I must absolutely have.

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  24. Sarah says

    TOUCH ME!

    I would love an app that helps me keep track of my grocery list and what’s on sale at my local markets.

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  25. Deidre says

    TOUCH ME! I don’t have an iphone or itouch but the coolest app is the one where you can hold the iphone up to any song or the radio and it will tell you what song and the artist and let you download. Probably comes in handy around the holidays when you’re walking through the mall? or Maybe not. I think it’s called Shazam?

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  29. Renae Reis says

    Touch me…please! I suppose that my wish for an app would be one that yes, balances my checkbook everytime my husband or I make a purchase. Gas $25.00, Groceries $42.76, iTunes $1.29…so I don’t have to write it down, enter it, or get stuck at the gas station without a receipt then find a random piece of paper hanging out on the floor of my car in order to write down the transaction amount. Yes, that would be dreamy and might be enough to convince me to buy one. Can you get those guys to work on that for me? Thanks! :)

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  32. Kendall says

    Touch Me!! I like the paper toss app. It has no home improvement benefits, it is just a good way to waste time! :)

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  36. Christine says

    TOUCH ME!

    Don’t have an iphone, but would love to use an app that makes it easy to record my food intake for the day with calories used and calories burned.

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  39. Amblus says

    I have a sad old crack-screened 1G iPhone but I love it and pet it and call it My Precious. My favorite app is (or was) the eBay app. Sadly, it won’t work on my 1G iPhone anymore. Wah.

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  42. Amanda W. says

    Touch me!! I would have an app on my IPod that magically cleaned the bathroom-especially my pesky shower!! :)

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  49. Erin O says

    TOUCH ME! I would love an app that could kill bugs and spiders in my house- I’d just point the camera at them and POOF!

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