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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

  4. Molly says

    I wish I had an iPhone, soley because of all those fabulous aps! My app idea would be a precurser to my fantasy kitchen of the future. :) It would generate weekly menus based on my preferences and budget and then make a shopping list for me including which stores in my area have deals on the ingredients.

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  5. Kate M. says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iphone but I like playing with other peoples’ when they have the dinner spinner from all recipes.

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  6. Chou says

    TOUCH ME!
    I’m a college student so I would be eternally grateful for an application that would do my homework for me.

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  16. Lily says

    Touch me! I would be most happy to tell you what my favorite app is once I have it in my possession. Truth is I’ve never used one before, though I have seen plenty of happy people with them.

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  17. Lily says

    Touch me! I would be most happy to tell you what my favorite app is once I have it in my possession. Truth is I’ve never used one before, though I have seen plenty of happy people with them.

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  21. Renee Smith says

    TOUCH ME!

    Is there an app that will put a fussy and sleepy baby to sleep? Maybe I’m influenced by the cries from the other room on that one… gotta run!

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  23. Josh says

    Touch Me!

    I think I would really like Evernote. I have a hard time remembering everything, so an app that would help keep me organized would be great.

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  28. Madelaine says

    TOUCH ME!!!

    I would love an iPhone and until such a time, have to droll over my co-worker’s phone. He has a great app for entering milage information. We get paid milage for our work and this would be so much handier than my notebook I tote around in the car!

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  30. joni says

    TOUCH ME!

    I need an ipod for: 1. Exercise. I have nothing to listen to my music on since we moved our elliptical into the basement of my apartment where there are no outlets! (elliptical runs on battery). We had to free up space in the office for the expedit desks my fiance and i bought!! (*shout out to ikea*) 2. I’m the music director at our church and this would come in extremely handy!

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  31. travis says

    TOUCH ME!

    I have an ipod touch and my fiance (above, joni, who i adore) wants one for Christmas and this would save me a ton if i could just WIN it instead. My favorite app is the drum set.

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  33. Jen says

    Touch Me! I would LOVE to have a way to organize all of my little sticky notes! And not by sticking them on the iphone, but using the organizers!

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  37. Scoobs says

    Touch Me!!! PLEASE! I would love an app that I would allow me to take a picture of something while I am out shopping and it would show me how it would look in my home before I bought it! That would save me SO many trips to the store returning things!

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  42. Stephanie H. says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an Iphone, but I would use an app that helped me plan meals and coordinate it with a grocery list. Or shop for me all together because I loathe grocery shopping.

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  43. John Anthony says

    Touch me, por favor.

    My #1 app would be an app that tells me where the busses are, and where they’re going. I live in Chicago, so any little bit of help helps.

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  48. haley says

    Touch Me.
    I would pay a billion dollars for an app that would prevent my kids from coming out of the woodwork to NEED something URGENTLY whenever the phone gets to my ear!

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  49. Beth Alums says

    Touch Me!! Touch me!!

    My favorite apps are the ones I recently used on a trip – Tripit, NYC subway map – invaluable, and Local Picks by Trip advisor. Freakin fantastic apps – made our NY trip seamless!

    I am also a big fan of the Weight Watchers app, but I wish it would generate shopping lists based on my favorite items.

    What about an app that gives you the name of matching paint colors from a picture? Similar to how Midomi and SnapTell work. That would be great – if you see a color you love, anywhere on anything, you could snap a pic, and get the color code for it and the app would save and store your favorites.

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  50. threadbndr says

    Please, Please TOUCH ME

    I need ways to store my lists and lists of lists – the books to read, songs to download, chores to do. The list of lists is endless

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