Glenn Fleishman is known for his infectious enthusiasm for all things AirPort, and he certainly lived up to that reputation with his speedy work updating his popular ebook Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network to cover Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The ebook still covers Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and it still has notes about older versions of Mac OS X (and Windows XP and Vista) where appropriate, such as when describing how to connect to an AirPort-attached USB printer. The 265-page ebook remains priced at $15.

This update cleans up a few loose ends, such as the fact that the Time Capsule no longer has a 500 GB model and instead comes in 1 TB and 2 TB sizes. The main point of the update, however, is to add Snow Leopard information. This involved a number of small wording changes, some new screenshots, and a major revision of the text that discusses the AirPort menu in the menu bar. That's key because Snow Leopard makes a few subtle changes, and Option-clicking to open the menu in Snow Leopard reveals much more useful information about nearby networks than was present in Leopard.

If you already own version 1.x of Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network, you can get a free update; open your PDF to page 1 and click Check for Updates. If you own one of Glenn's previous AirPort ebooks, you can access a discounted update via Check for Updates.

—Posted by Tonya Engst on September 8, 2009