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!
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I’d love to upgrade to an IPhone and make life easier with all the fun apps.
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My husband has an iPhone and the best app so far has been a shapes-game that our 2.5 year old loves to play in the car :)
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Well I don’t have an iPhone, or a iTouch but the perfect Application for me would build dynamic play lists based on what I was doing (this might exist somewhere). I could just type in ‘cooking’, ‘Halloween’, or ‘Jogging’ and it would line up a playlist off my computer of food related songs, ‘scary’ music, or line up some songs with the right beat for a steady pace.
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I would love an app to fold the 7 loads of clean clothes that are currently resting on my couch.
…hmmph.
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I don’t have an iPod touch, but I am sure they already have an app like this…I would like one where it lists all the restaurants in my area so it would be easier to decide what I want to eat! Whenever my husband and I go out to dinner we can never decide where to go!
Toucha toucha toucha TOUCH ME, I wanna be techie!
Thrill me chill me fulfil me
Technology of delight. (My edited RHPS lyrics).
I don’t have iPhone or oPod Touch to know the apps, but if they had an app to record notes to yourself that transcribes what you said…. now that would be smashing!
Your blog has touched me! I just discovered it this a.m. via Shelteriffic (“touch me in the morning . . .”) ;). I live in Richmond, VA, too and love what you guys do – it’s what I’ve always wanted to do but thought I couldn’t earn a living at it b/c I don’t have an interior design background = no credibility. And there you to are doing just that! You inspire me.
TOUCH ME! Alas, I don’t have an iPhone so I don’t have a favorite app, but the app I’m most jealous of not being able to use is Mint! :)
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I am not familiar with the current available apps … they don’t run on my ipod shuffle so I am not sure what I would request or what would be my favorite!
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If I could make ANY app in the world…I would want one that could take a picture of a room and then have it give me suggestions for redesign or what colors to add…ya know a “Miracle Makeover” sorda thing!!!! :)
Crossing my Fingers and Toes!!!
Krista
TOUCH ME! I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did, the perfect app for me would be something that picks up the dog poop when we walk the dogs. Two dogs, two leashes, I could really use an extra hand there, Imaginary iPhone.
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I like the apps where they tell you all the restaurants in your area. My husband and I can never decide where to go!
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Okay since I am behind in the world of technology ( we don’t even own a cell phone yet ) and I have no idea what apps are available, I think I would want an app that budgets for me! It keeps track of my expenditures and puts them in the proper categories, all the while keeping a running total of my checking account…how awesome would that be? But then again, maybe there is an app like that already out there…LOL!
Thanks for opportunity to win!
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I would like an app that would send me on scavenger hunts!! Maybe it would learn my fav places to eat – then afterawhile I can let my ipod tell me where to go. Or maybe take me to an art gallery to see a specific piece of art. I want adventure!
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I would love an app that creates a gluten free dinner menu based on what I already have in the house.
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I was going to say an app that teleports me places, but realistically, I’m going to second the wardrobe organizing app!!
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I don’t have an iPhone but it is on my wish list for sure! I’ve seen them in action and think it would be awesome if there was an app that would take me to and fro on errands – call the ride, pick me up, help me load the car and come back home safely. A lot to ask huh?! :)
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My miracle app would iron my clothes for me. I’d just need to remember to turn it off befrore putting it in my purse…
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My favorite app is the piano keyboard. It is so much more fun and useful than using an old fashioned pitch pipe (although a pitch pipe never runs out of batteries!) Another favorite is air hockey. Such a great waste of time!
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my ap would keep birthdays and other memorable occasions on a calendar, then download an e-card ready to be filled out and sent! I’d never buy a “Happy Belated….” card again!
TOUCH ME and since I’m not cool enough to have an iPhone or a Touch, I’ll just make up my own app. I’d like to have an app that would compare prices at the various grocery stores in my area (updated with current sales). A girl can dream!
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Sadly, I don’t own a phone with any apps, but would love one that does laundry while I am at work.
TOUCH ME PLEASE!
I’d love to have an app that takes the dimensions of rooms, furniture ect from a picture.
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I’ll go with the miracle app since I’m not up-to-date on what apps there currently are (that’s why I really, really need one).
My miracle app would clean my house daily and leave me money under my pillow each night.
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The Pandora music app is pretty neat. Although, its actually my husband who has the iPod Touch (thanks to his amazing wife and new daughter for his first father’s day) — :).
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My favorite app would have to be a dinner planning app that would create a shopping/ingredient list!
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I love the Amazon Kindle app for the iPhone. You can buy and download books to your iPhone in a matter of seconds. It has come in handy on trips! I can have a book ON MY PHONE!!
TOUCH ME! My fav app of ALL time is Pocket God. Not particularly productive, but sooo fun ;)
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I second an app that will go to the gym and burn madd calories for me, lol
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I would love an app that tells me what to make for dinner, with my family’s tastes in mind. I don’t mind cooking, but it’s the planning I hate!
TOUCH ME!!! I have been dieing for an Ipod Touch!!! And we are hoping to embark on a kitchen redo so this would be perfect!!
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I like the app for movie times.