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New Yorker iPhone Cover Boosts Sales for Brushes App

Artist Jorge Colombo may have drawn the dreamy, nocturnal cityscape of Manhattan on the June 1 cover, using his iPhone, but a software engineer named Steve Sprang built Brushes, the iPhone application that transformed Mr. Columbo’s swipes into digital strokes.

The novelty and popularity of the cover has provided a healthy boost in sales for the 32-year-old who works shifts in a coffee shop when he’s not developing applications for the iPhone and Mac.

On Monday, Mr. Sprang said the application had its highest selling day since it was first released into Apple’s App Store in August, with 2,700 copies at $4.99 apiece flying off the virtual shelves.

“That’s even bigger than when Apple featured the application on iTunes,” said Mr. Sprang, who estimated that on average the application sells roughly 60 to70 copies each day.

To date, the application has sold around 40,000 copies, he said.

The flurry of attention and sales was something of a surprise to Mr. Sprang, who said he first learned Mr. Colombo’s illustration would appear on the upcoming cover of the weekly magazine when he received a call from a newspaper interested in interviewing him about it.

“Now, it’s everywhere,” he said.
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Art for iPhone

What can you get for US$149.7 million? How about a nice Jackson Pollock masterpiece? Too rich for you? OK, how about Art, from ADS Software?If nothing else, the $1 app will run you hundreds of millions less than that Pollock painting, and you might learn a thing or two as part of the bargain.

What can you get for US$149.7 million? How about a nice Jackson Pollock masterpiece? Too rich for you? OK, how about Art, from ADS Software?If nothing else, the $1 app will run you hundreds of millions less than that Pollock painting, and you might learn a thing or two as part of the bargain.

Art includes around 400 works to investigate, enough to keep most art students busy for a few days. Each image and artist is accompanied by a link to a Wikipedia entry, so you should be able to find out why van Gogh lost that ear.
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