The other way to request a date range is to pass a date parameter in the URL:

Example:
https: //google.com....dashboard?...&pdr=20080109-20080109

parameter: pdr

value: 20080109-20080109 (YearMonthDay-YearMonthDay)

Greasemonkey is a Firefox Add-on that allows customized JavaScript to be added to any web page that you visit.

I've written a user script called Analytics Today that sets your Analytics date range to the current day instead of the previous month. You can still obviously change the range just as you do now. Please feel free to try it out. I've included it, along with source code, below!

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Download it here -> AnalyticsToday.user.js - v0.1.3 (10-21-08)

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Source Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Analytics Today - v0.1.3
// @namespace     blog.dansnetwork.com
// @description   Sets Google Analytic's default date range to today.

// @include       https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting*

// @exclude
// ==/UserScript==

var url = window.location.href;
var urlParam = "&pdr=";

var today = new Date();
var day = today.getDate().toString();
var month = (today.getMonth() + 1).toString();
var year = today.getFullYear().toString();
var todaysRange;

if(day < 10)
day = '0' + day;
if(month < 10)
month = '0' + month;

var todaysRange = year + month + day + '-' + year + month + day;

if(url.indexOf(urlParam) < 0)
window.location.href += '&pdr=' + todaysRange;