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:
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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Now I have that DiVinyls song in my head. Thanks guys!
Touch me! I’d like an app that could scan the calories in the food I eat to take out the guesswork!
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Don’t have an iPhone but I think a yardwork app would be fab :)
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I don’t have one but the kid I study with for school has one and you can make flash cards! How great is that? You don’t have to lug around a whole stack of flash cards.
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If I could creat my own miracle app it would definitelly be able to fold my laundry since I hate doing that.
TOUCH ME! I don’t have an iPhone but I have seen the upc scanner on my friends iPhone. It scans any item and finds the lowest price on the web. Absolutely amazing! Shopping will never be the same will it.
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One of the apps we love is the Tipulator. No more struggling with the calculator when there are large groups of people at the restaurant.
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What an awesome giveaway!
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TOUCH ME! It would be great if an app could instantly create an extra few hours in the day. Maybe then I’d get everything done that I wanted to!
TOUCH ME! So awesome, I may be the only person in America without an iPod!
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My favorite app is SHizzam (sp?) where you can hold up the device to any radio or music playing and it will instantly tell you what song is playing and the artist. I have discovered many new songs this way.
Oh and urban spoon..restaurants in the area, etc.
List goes on and on!
“Touch Me” with your Ipod phone! I would love to try this when I redo my bathroom.
Touch me!! I think my fav app is Pandora. AND it’s kind of a DIY project because you get to pick your own radio station according to what music you like.
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I love the level app.
My dream app would be a gardening table that would tell
me when to plant/harvest in my zone.
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I would love to have an iPhone App that would decide dinner for my fiance and I. We spend our commute home trying to decide :)
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now,TOUCH ME baby!! Anywho…no Ipod for this girl means no Ipod apps that I heart….therefore my miracle app would be one that exercises for me, no wait that cleans house for me, or maybe pays bills with miracle money!!!
Ooooooh, I want one sooooo bad! My cousin was in town for a weekend recently, and she had her’s with her. I was madly jealous. There are apps to keep kids occupied at restaurants, but the best one was an app that you could use to scan a barcode and it would tell you the price for that item at several different stores!!! Yeehaw!
TOUCH ME”!!! This is a fabulous freebee!!!! Don’t have an iPhone, and would really like to have one, but I dont use ATT for my Cellphone company :( Hope verizon comes out with it soon!
TOUCH ME!!! I don’t have an i-pone but if I did, i would love for it to help pay my bills and update me on what’s going in my life (i.e. a calendar planner). Walking the dog (and feeding him) wouldn’t be so bad either :)
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I don’t (currently! :) have an iPhone.. but several of my friends do..
I LOVE the education ones.. they have some great ideas that I can incorporate into my lesson plans for my 6th graders!
I love the grocery IQ one also.. I went shopping with my friend and I couldn’t believe how easy it was to store your list and how much you need! Genius!
Touch Me! I how I hope I win since I don’t have an iPhone or iTouch yet.
touch me!! i think the app where you shake it to find a restaurant looks cool.
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TOUCH ME!!! I don’t have an i-phone but if I did, I’d love it to come with an app that plans dinner each night and counts calories along the way!
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I don’t have an iPhone or an iPod and I’m not sure what apps do, but I want one. Really bad. Then I’ll be like all the cool kids.
TOUCH ME! I don’t have any apps to suggest…lacking the equipment…but I’d love something to track what’s in my pantry and fridge. I’m sure a notebook would do fine, but I keep forgetting my lists. Oops!
Touch me!! My favorite app is the Toy Story 2 app…actually its my son’s favorite. Well, mine too because it makes him happy, and still!
TOUCH ME! I think I would appreciate an app to keep my budget in check.
TOUCH ME! I’m dying for that level…
TOUCH ME! I have Pandora on my Blackberry, and would keep on using it on an iPhone too. Awesome music app! I love picking out my different stations based on my mood, and knowing I can control the content of the station.
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I don’t have an iphone or ipod touch, and so I don’t really know what apps exist, but I think a calender/to-do list would be very handy and portable.
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TOUCH ME!! I am one of the unfortunate ones to have Verizon service and it’s complete lack of comparabale Smart Phones and Apple is just the best product on the planet. So I sit at home with fingers and toes crossed that the IPHONE will become available to Verizon next year. But I love the Pandora APP. How you can just create your own playlist and it builds from there. Most useful at places like the beach and camping (when you have service). My Mom uses a Grocery App. It’s great. It is from ontomni, cost a few bucks but well worth it. Organizes your list by where it is located, has a field where you can put the cost of the product and the coupon discount and it gives you a great idea of what you are going to spend.
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Best app is anything game related like Solitare, Clue, Scrabble, Yahtzee, etc. that you can play on your phone. My geography skills are sorely lacking so something that could help re-teach me all the geography that I learned in grade school would be a fabulous new app.
Touch me! the color capture app would be very handy, plus i’d use it with my nike+ kit. how fun!
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No apps to suggest, but it sure would be cool to win this and start trying some apps out!! :)
I don’t have the iPhone yet(wink-nudge)but I would love an app that could somehow keep tell me what the refrigerator is low on.
TOUCH ME!! I love any app to entertain my kids!!! Just noticed on a friends phone they now offer “kid games”! Very cool!
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Don’t have an iPhone either, but I would love it if they had an app that would clean the house!
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Let me win this one first and then I’ll tell you what I app I really need!
TOUCH ME! I love the urbanspoon app for the iPhone, to find restaurants.
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Don’t have an iphone – i think this one exists already but finding out where certain restaurants are in your vicinity at a the touch of a button would be really cool!