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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.
Jaimee says
TOUCH ME
I love the facebook app
lori says
TOUCH ME
I would like to have an app that cleans bathrooms! HA
Jason says
Touch me!!
I’d love to be able to use the Facebook App to stay up to date on my friend around the country.
Libby from Houston says
A meal-planning – grocery list app would be at the VERY top of my wish-list!
Laura H. says
TOUCH ME!! I agree…a maid app would be fabulous!
rebann says
TOUCH ME! No iappliances for me (yet), but I dream of an app that removes dog-hair from furniture!
beabee says
TOUCH ME! Do they already have bejewelled? because that would kill my ability to do anything, ever.
Stefanie says
TOUCH ME
Paper Toss is by far the very best application in the universe. I’ve lost hours I’ll never get back…
Lauren says
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It would just be awesome to have an ipod touch!
Dani says
Touch Me! Scrub the Tub App!!
Seraph says
TOUCH ME!
I want an app that would allow me to upload my senior thesis directly from my brain to my school’s library. It would save me all that pesky in-between.
(day late on my rough draft and counting…)
Jenny L. says
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I love the apps for musicians, a tuner, a metronome. Everything all in one!
April D. says
TOUCH ME!! Unfortunately, I have iPhone envy b/c I don’t have one. :(
Jeff D. says
TOUCH ME! Honestly, my wife is making me enter this and neither one of us has an iPhone but I have to hear about it b/c all of her friends have one.
sara says
TOUCH ME
I heard that there is an app for parents to record feedings, poops, and wet diapers…much better than my spiral notebook.
Ellen K. says
TOUCH ME!
I don’t have an i-phone but I’m a fan of the i-level app. Just brilliant!
Fatima says
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I’ll have a fav app once I have an iphone :)
Nathan C. says
TOUCH ME! An app that could create a dinner menu from what you have in your pantry.
Nick S. says
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I love all apps, from those that serve a practical function, to those that are just fun (like the one that makes random Star Wars light saber sounds).
Lara says
TOUCH ME!
I would like an app that picks out clothes for me based on my skin tone, hair, whether or not I have zits that day or not.
Shelley @ Green Eggs & Hamlet says
TOUCH ME! My miracle iPhone app would do all of the grocery shopping so that I could just cook!
Ryan says
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Cori says
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I don’t know about any of the apps since I haven’t had the pleasure of checking out an iPhone…which is why I really need one :0)
Jess G. says
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An app that could plan a menu with what I have in the kitchen would be terrific!
Erin says
TOUCH ME!!!
I don’t have an iPhone or iTouch (YET!), but if I could design an app. to do anything…I would have it be available for home DIY’ers. You would enter simple info., like your style choice, color preferences, etc and it would provide current design ideas, paint shades, and product links to the Internet!
Erin T says
TOUCH ME!
I would love it if they came up with an app to feed my baby in the middle of the night…
Cindy says
TOUCH ME!!!
I wish I had an iphone, and if I did, I would love an app that would allow you to “try on” different hair styles and colors!
Sally says
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No favorites at this point, but I’ve traveled with a friend who has one – it was nice to be able to look up restaurants from the hotel without having to lug around a laptop.
Julie says
TOUCH ME!
I think my app would one that would allow people to log their GPS coordinates and upload different animal species they see.
Love the blog!
Melissa Mal says
TOUCH ME.
My fav app is aroundme.
Chris M. says
TOUCH ME!!!
Debra Burton says
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I don’t have an iPhone so I’m not familiar with available apps, but if I win the Ipod Touch….I will become very familiar!
Thanks for the chance.
Jeremy says
Touch me!
And give me an app that makes my kid clean after she’s been playing outside.
Jaclyn Castor says
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Fav would be the face book app!
Jen says
TOUCH ME
i dont have an iphone, but definitely shopping and craigslist apps would best fit my life. like let me know when everything i’m stalking goes on sale so I don’t miss it but can afford it (sale!)
Karen Basaraba says
“Touch me”
A few of my favorite applications on my iphone are…
(which, by the way, my husband recently ran through our wash machine with the bedding and it still works!…amazing!)…(after being in a tupperware full of rice for a month, but, hey!, still works!)
We’re music lovers, so we love Pandora.
Also, I am always lost in the city, so I love AroundMe.
And, I just downloaded a really cool app where you can turn your pics into polaroids. Who doesn’t love a fun polaroid?, right?
Keep up the good work. I love your site!
Karen Basaraba
Kate says
TOUCH ME!!!!
I don’t have an iphone or ipod touch but I think a great app would be something to do my hose cleaning for me! Who wouldn’t want that?
Christina says
TOUCH ME! I don’t have one (obvi) but an app to track all my lists/ideas would be awesome.
stefanie says
TOUCH ME
I don’t have one, but would be really cool to have one to help me organize and look up recipes while I am in the kitchen. My dream app would be something like doing the laundry for me…haha
Chrysta says
TOUCH ME! My niece uses her iPod and the some fish app (you shake it, that’s all I know) when cutting my preschooler’s hair.
Mariel says
TOUCH ME! And my miracle app would definitely be the house being magically clean all the time.
Mandy says
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My favorite app right now is twitterrific. It has officially gotten me hooked on twitter.
allison says
TOUCH ME! I fully need this. My miracle app would be one that makes me go to bed on time — never enough sleep!
Sylvia says
Touch Me!! I like around me, you can find banks, stores, restarants near your current location.
Tara says
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I must not be very creative b/c I can’t think of a new app that probably hasn’t already been invented…
Jackie says
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I wish there was an app that took an inventory of all my clothes and then would tell me what to wear each day! :o)
Angela says
TOUCH ME! I’d love an app that would sweep my floors!
erica m says
TOUCH ME!!! TOUCH ME!!! TOUCH ME PLEASE!!!
well, first of all Thursday is my 30th birthday, so how could would it be to win because im having seriously weird issues with my twenties officially being over and i also have some serious i.envy!
my ideal app would be one that would automatically have all of my laundry (mine, kids, boyfriends) laundry washed, folded, and then put away according to sleeve length, neckline, dress length and color. super coordinated closets are my dream. i had them once….pre-babies….
Azeezat says
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I would love an app that cleaned my room for me…a girl can dream, right?
Ashley M says
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I love the Shazam app that records a few seconds of a song and then tells you the title/artist. SO helpful for those “I haven’t heard this song in FOREVER…what is it again?” moments with friends…