Meet Behrad! 
This is Behrad Ghadiri, CEO and founder of quote.by. The idea to quote.by arose when he saw a lot of issues with traditional websites for quotes. More specifically, how they organize and want you to browse quotes. To improve upon these issues, he launched quote.by about three months ago. Quote.by helps you discover and share your favorite quotes. Their suggestion system helps you find quotes based on similar quotes, themes and tags. You can follow authors and other users and receive real-time updates about them. Their native iPhone app is also coming out very shortly.

Behrad currently pursues a Computer Science degree at the University of Toronto. He just recently finished his 16 months internship at IBM Toronto Lab working as part of WebSphere Application Server team and he works part-time for various advertising agencies. In his spare time, he has also released some free goodies such as Imperial Tumblr theme and couple of icon sets for Mac OS X. 

- What kind of apps do you use? "I use Flipboard everyday to keep track of the blogs I follow. It is a really beautiful alternative to plain old RSS. I manage my personal tasks using Things. It syncs wonderfully between all my devices which keeps my tasks always up-to-date. Occasionally, I use iTeleport to connect remotely to my computer over the internet. It has eliminated the need for me to carry my laptop everywhere. I also use Tumblr to manage both my personal and our company's blog. It has all the features that we will ever need and implementing our own blogging system just seemed like reinventing the wheel."

- Which devices do you use to run the apps (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone)?"I have a MacBook, an iPad, and an iPhone. Most of the apps I have on my MacBook are productivity apps such as text editors and the funner apps are usually on my iPad. I only have some essential apps on my iPhone since it's not very fast nowadays. I am looking forward to iPhone 5 whenever that comes out and until then I shall follow the rumors."

- What is your favorite app and why?"Svpply is my favorite app at the moment. I shop online very frequently and a friend of mine introduced me to Svpply. Now, I use it before buying anything. Their most popular items usually turn out to be the best you can find online and their infinite scrolling feature is really addicting."

- Do you use web apps for your job?"We manage our source code using GitHub. As we added more features, keeping our code in-sync across developers became harder. It also allowed us to take more risks and be more experimental without worrying about corrupting the existing code. We use Dropbox and Gmail to share other development resources such as graphics, meeting minutes or even mockups for our new features. We also use Kuler, a webapp from Adobe, when our minds go blank looking for a new color for our user interface. It has a really simple interface which allows you to focus only on colors."

- What is the most unusual app you have? Why is it unusual?"Rhy.ms has to be the most brilliant unusual app I have ever used. Basically, you have a sequence of images and other users can add a new image which somehow relates to the last image and it goes on like that. It's much more artistic than functional."

- Is there an app that is missing? Something you would love to use but does not exist yet?"I would like to see a more unified solution for online shopping. More and more startups are emerging to take a stab at online shopping but it is still far from perfect. We have identified some features that would ease the online shopping experience but nothing revolutionary yet so we haven't invested any time on a possible project. But it is definitely something I would like to explore more."

- What app is an undiscovered gem?"OhLife is a diary application that sends you an email everyday and asks about your day. I always wanted to keep a diary and have regretted not doing so at various points. This ingenious solution helps you be consistent without much annoyance."


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