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Store and Retrieve Info at MyGADs
Posted by Lifehacker US Edition at 12:30 AM on June 4, 2008
Web-based information manager MyGADs lets you create, share, and retrieve important bits of information like flight confirmation numbers, birthdays, phone numbers, and more. Store address books, calendars, tasks, and notes in personal or public "GADs" with text messages, instant messages, or using the web site. Need to remember Uncle Billy's birthday? Instant message it to your GAD. Forgot when it was? Ask your GAD. The interface is easy and conversational. Set GADs permissions so friends and family can edit and/or view your GAD (i.e., Mum sets the schedule, kids can check it.) Kind of like a lo-fi cross between Sandy and Google SMS, MyGADs isn't just limited to retrieving information you have already fed to it. Queries like "Weather in New York", "Population of Britain", or "Who is Albert Einstein" will return relevant answers from sites like Wikipedia or the national weather service, too.

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Jay Elmore
Posted 4:47 AM 4/6/08
So what exactly is a GAD, anyway? Neither this writeup nor the MyGADS site explains what it is, and it's rather frustrating. Ten points from MyGADS for not bothering to explain their silly acronym.
Wikipedia disambiguation page for GAD
Group Account Director?
Government Actuary's Department?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder? (heh)
Jay Elmore
mactabby
Posted 8:40 AM 4/6/08
@Jay Elmore: At a guess, Group Access Database, based on what it does, but it's too late for me; not wasting my time with something that's so obtuse it can't even explain what it is properly. Clunky site too.
mactabby
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Posted 11:47 AM 4/6/08
err great ... another fly app to spend like 6 hours entering a bazillion data points just for them to go belly up in 6 mo - or get bought out by a spamhaus and start sending my uncle Benny birthday ads for viagra. No thanks.
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