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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:="nofollow">

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

  2. Jess says

    TOUCH ME!

    I’d love an application that made dinner while helping my kids with their homework…oh wait, I already do that. Um, can it mix me a drink?

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  3. Matt McKeag says

    TOUCH ME!

    My wife won’t let me get an iPhone, but my favorite app WOULD be the one that plans a week of dinners, does the grocery shopping and cooks the food by 6 PM every night…is there an app for that?

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  8. Kate says

    TOUCH ME!!!! I don’t have an ipod touch, but I have a blackberry and my favorite app on there is the pandora app. I’m guessing they probably have a Pandora app for iphone since pandora is just so freaking awesome :D

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  12. Jordan says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iphone or itouch (YET), but my dream application would be an App to clean my car (inside, and out, please). I love cleaning the house, but for some reason loathe cleaning the car…

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  13. robyn says

    touch me!! i definitely need an app that gives me weekly meal plan menus and corresponding shopping lists…dinner at our house is usually a scramble!

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  14. E Drake says

    TOUCH ME

    My miracle app would show all the local sales ads at my favorite stores like Target, Walmart, Lowes…etc.

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  18. Trish T. says

    TOUCH ME

    My dream app would tell me what to make for dinner (it would be something my boyfriend and I actually like) AND give me the recipe and the shopping list. I absolutely hate having to decide what to cook!

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  20. Natalie S says

    TOUCH ME
    I don’t have one, but my hubby does and I love to use the moviefone app! I am a huge movie fan. I can look up times for local movie theaters and watch the trailers all with one app! Its the best! :)

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  21. Erin says

    Touch me!

    Favorite app? I think if I had to pick one, it’s be RadarScope … weather radar (let’s you know when you better hurry your butt up and finish that outdoor project.) Dream app? Take a picture of an unknown weed and it identifies it for you (and tells you how to get rid of it for good.)

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  22. Shauna says

    Touch Me.

    I wish I could tell you my favorite app but I’m still living in the 90’s. I’m lucky that my piece of junk cell even makes phone calls.

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  23. Nicole B. says

    TOUCH ME!!!

    I just got an iphone last month… I am still looking for design apps!

    Right now, my husband and I are trainning for a marathon(him) and half marathon(me)to raise money for an autism organization. We both use Run Keeper to help log our runs. It can load up onto facebook, map it, and time pace and distance.

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  26. Helen says

    TOUCH ME!!

    My favorite has to be the Google voice activated app. It’s awesome. I could be in my car and totally lost and all I need to do is speak where I’m going and it finds it for me. One more click and it brings up the place on google maps. Awesome.

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  30. Stephanie B says

    Touch me!!
    My husband has a iPod, and sometimes I get to play with it. My favorite app is the Crosswords. They’re so much fun.

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  34. Cara says

    TOUCH ME

    I don’t have a favorite app, but I could definitely use a grocery store price comparison, so I know if something’s really a good deal or not.

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  41. Melissa Schofield says

    Touch me! My miracle app would do the following things I hate to do: dusting and sanding (e.g. drywall mud).

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  42. Dana J says

    TOUCH ME some iPod LOVE! :) I would love an application that I could store/show room measurements! Wouldn’t it be cool to have a room layout ON your phone? At scale??

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  45. Melissa says

    Touch me!

    I would create an app that would give me turn by turn directions from wherever I am. I am sure they have this already, but I don’t have an iphone or itouch so I wouldn’t know! :)

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  46. Bridget Farago says

    Touch Me!

    My favorite App…The app that tracks the MBTA trains in Boston so I don’t have to leave my apartment until I know the train is around the bend. Best invention…Ever. Besides indoor plumbing.

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  47. Kaethe says

    Touche Me.

    Sherwin Williams also has a paint color app, that’s been well received. Another year and everyone will have one.

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