Tell Google where you are

Sounds kinda old school to suggest that you should tell Google where you are (and actually they could probably figure it out themselves, but that's another blog.) What I'm talking about is an entry I came across in the Google System Blog that identified a way to tell Google SMS what your default location should be. Looks like this is a new enhancement.

Basically, you send set location [location] (where [location is a ZIP code, City, State pair, etc) to 46645 on your phone. Then the next time you need to use Google's SMS, instead of typing weather 01234, you can just send weather and you'll get the information based on your default location.

Hey! Every few thumb strokes saves helps!