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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

  1. claudia says

    TOUCH ME!
    I would love an app for my wardrobe, like in clueless. This would make getting ready in the morning that much easier. *sigh*

    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  2. City Chic - Jamie says

    TOUCH ME! I don’t have an iphone yet and I am craving one with all of this cool app talk! Is there an app that would cook dinner? I’d settle for one that plans the menu and the shopping list :)

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  4. Jennifer Gessner says

    TOUCH ME! I would love a “flip-a-coin” app. I never carry change (I am a debit card girl) & find myself (and my husband) trying to flip-a-coin over a decision in a store (which pillow, throw rug, etc.) This app would have a coin and a flip button so you can still do the ol’ heads or tails thing without having to remember a coin. :)

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  7. Amanda H. says

    TOUCHMETOUCHMETOUCHME! (Can you tell I’m excited?)

    As a busy college undergrad, I would definitely love an app that would write all my papers for me. Just put in a topic/thesis, and presto! (Come to think of it, that’s what I’m supposed to be doing right now… oops) :D

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  8. Steph says

    TOUCH ME!!

    So exciting to think of all the different apps that would make my life better! How about an app that could give me shoulder massages? Or one that could simulate me laying on the beach soaking up some rays? Although I would settle for one that would just fold and put away the laundry!

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  10. Janelle says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iPhone, but what I’m thinking is a sort of meal planner. I just finished making my meal plan and grocery list for this week. I would like to be able to have an app that draws from a database of all the meals I know how to make, and randomly choose meals for me, so that I don’t have to think about it.

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  14. Reagen says

    TOUCH ME!

    I don’t have an iPod touch but I think an app that helped translate languages would be awesome. Not just that you type in a phrase but that you could have it “listen” to a conversation and it would translate as it went along. That would be so nice…

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  15. Sara says

    TOUCH ME!
    If I could invent an app, I’d like one to save all of my favorite recipes by category and then spit out a grocery list including not only the ingredients needed for 2 dinners (weekly, I cook 2 dinners on average, and the rest are the pasta sort!), but also to have my family’s weekly staples on the list too (stuff like breakfast food we buy weekly, etc).

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  16. Lauren says

    TOUCH ME !!!

    You guys are so great for having all these fun giveaways! If i could have any app it would be one that would tell me what to make for dinner by plugging in the random stuff laying around my fridge!

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  20. Krys72599 says

    TOUCH ME!

    My ideal app would support me so that I wouldn’t have to work for a living and I could just spend all day reading my favorite blogs and entering contests so that I could win something, anything, but especially an iPod Touch. And then I wouldn’t need an app that makes dinner ’cause I could do it myself…

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  21. Stephanie says

    Touch me! Or pick me would work, too!

    All I’ve got is an iPod, but I’m a fan of the iPod touch. Though I have to agree that the idea of an app that knows your closet and can choose outfits for you is totally awesome, I’m a college student, and keeping track of my budget is so difficult and confusing. And I’m a smart kid! That’s the app that I need.. who knows, maybe it’s out there!

    Good luck all!

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  23. Jenn F says

    “TOUCH ME”

    i don’t really have a favorite app, but if i could invent one it would definitely be some kind of app that gave me an endless supply of cash :)

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  29. Stacy W. says

    TOUCH ME! I think I’ve heard of an app that identifies colors and translates it into paint colors – does that sound right? I think that would be really fun to play with!

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  31. brieanne says

    TOUCH ME! haven’t made the plunge into the iphone world yet (anyone want to pay my phone bill?) but i think i’d love an app picked my dinner menu and did the shopping for me. groceries on the doorstep when i get home? that’d be nice.

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  33. mere... says

    TOUCH ME!

    no ipod for me right now, but i am a huge pandora fan & it would definitely be one of the first apps i’d download.

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  35. Angie McGovern says

    Touch Me!

    I would have a miracle app that gets up with my baby in the middle of the night to feed her and rock her back to sleep.

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  39. Gemma says

    TOUCH ME!

    I would love an app that would go through the various used furniture websites (craigslist, kijiji, etc.) every day, know my taste, and send me the “top 20 pieces” to my email. That way, I wouldn’t ever miss any of the best finds.

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  40. Susan says

    TOUCH ME!

    my favorite app is called “best camera.” you take pictures with your iphone and this sweet app let’s you edit the photo and upload it right to twitter or facebook. it’s fabulous!

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  42. Erin R says

    TOUCH ME and call me an iPod!!!! How cool would it be to be as trendy as my kids?! Thanks for the chance to enter & win!

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  43. Ellen C says

    TOUCH ME!
    Thanks for the opportunity to win such a great prize! This would be a fabulous Christmas present for the hubby. I am sure he’d like an app to offer suggestions on how to soothe a sick preggo wife. ha!

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  47. Lori Schmitt says

    TOUCH ME

    I would love an app that can budget TIME for me. How much time should I really be spending a day on cooking, cleaning, talking on the phone. What is the best use of my time and how. a TIME app!

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