Fab Freebie: I Touch My Surface

Posted by John

October 26, 2009

***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries***

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:

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.

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Comment by threadbndr on October 28, 2009 @ 7:51 pm

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

Comment by Beth Allums on October 28, 2009 @ 7:52 pm

Yeah whoops – and with the paint – similar to the Benjamin Moore app – what about if it combined your projects – paint, decor, home improvement – and helped you generate lists for supplies, and store on going projects? Perhaps it could calculate amount of supplies needed for projects too… hmmm….

Comment by Beth Allums on October 28, 2009 @ 7:55 pm

Touch me! Touch Me!!

My favorites are apps I recently used on trip – Tripit, Local Picks by Trip advisor, and the NYC subway app – invaluable, and made the trip seamless!

An app similar to the Benjamin Moore app – what about if it combined your projects – paint, decor, home improvement – and helped you generate lists for supplies, and store on going projects? Perhaps it could calculate amount of supplies needed for projects too… hmmm….
And I wanna take pictures of home decor stuff and have it work like snaptell or midomi!