Fab Freebie: I Touch My Surface: a house log

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No, the title of this week’s freebie is not meant to be perverse. It is simply the clearest way to identify the DuPont giveaway that has already popped up on some of our go-to blogs. And now it is here on YHL (insert party kazoo sound effect here). Ladies and gents, we present to you: the DuPont iPod Touch giveaway. That is right, DuPont’s gonna hook one of you up with a free iPod Touch. Monday simply got a little better, eh?

DuPont lately launched a new free iPhone and iPod Touch app called mySurface that is designed to assist you pick a countertop from within their Corian and Zodiaq line of products. The lively interface would’ve been strong back when we were redoing our kitchen, if nothing else simply 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 are still getting strong bathroom inspiration ideas from mySurface’s photo gallery:

DuPont was even kind sufficient to hook us up with our own iPod Touch (now I am nearly as cool as my iPhone toting wife) to check it out and dig up some other helpful Hands-on apps to share with you folks. So here are the other home-improvement related apps that we are digging:

We have been having plenty of lively 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 go-to fabric, painting or – well – photo of your dog on the beach. And though we have not 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 plenty of pointers about keeping notes and lists on your iPhone back on this post, so we have began to use Evernote (again, free). It is 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 have 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 nearly 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 sufficient jibber-jabber. Here is how you can win your quite 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: …assist us build our app collection by telling us your go-to 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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