First, like others, this card didn't install well since it wasn't able to find the drivers (P.S. I have an about 18 months old Dell computer with a lot of RAM and a big video card running Windows 7 Pro 64bits)...

The drivers included on the mini-disc didn't work... Finally, by looking directly on the card (do so before installing it!) and at other's review, I was able to find drivers and firmware updates by searching "NEC usb 3 driver windows 7" on Google. This card (if it's always the same) is the PD720201...

After installing everything, it detecting it well and it now works fine... But, after some testing (and rebooting to make sure), I tried to copy a more than 7Gb movie onto my external USB 3.0 WD MyPassport 2Go drive...

Test 1: since my card is on the back of the computer, I bought a USB 3.0 extension cable... With that pluged-in, it was pretty slow...
Test 2: the same file on the same drive, but plugged into my USB 2.0 port... It was faster!!
Test 3: same thing again, but with the HD plugged directly into the card (i.e. not extension): very slightly faster than USB 2.0...

So, average of about 4-5 min. to transfer the file (at least, that what it was saying, because I didn't wait everytime... It often started fast, but was slowing down a lot after few seconds to give me those numbers...

I tried the same file and installation on my laptop, which has a built-in USB 3.0 port: about one minute...

So, far from the speed mentioned by the vendor... For that price, I'll probably keep it, since it add 4 USB ports (maybe I'll give it to my wife...), but certainly not near USB 3.0 speed...

I use this book since Flash 8 and I really like it.

I find it complete (covers the most common topics) and has a really easy learning curve (not with technical terms as you can see in other books like the O'Reilly ones). If you want to go further, I would suggest one of O'Reilly's book, but I really recommand starting with this one if you've never programmed before (or if you're not an advanced programmer in another language).

I skipped the Flash CS4 version because it still uses AS 3.0... but I was surprised with this version how it integrates a lot of new CS5 functionalities (along with the new text engine).

Really good book!

I already had the previous version (with DHTML and AJAX) and though it's a little bit sad that those parts are remove, I think it's a good move to concentrate on CSS3.

I probably won't read this book from cover to cover (though you can do so), but it's an excellent source for refence. It also clearly points what's new in CSS3, for those new to CSS and who wants to stick with CSS2 until everything is well supported.

It also includes an introduction chapter on HTML5 (and all the html code in the book is based on HTML5).

I have both the printed version and Kindle version and I'm sure gonna use them both.

As with all the Classroom in a Book products, this book is good to start off. It covers a lot of topics and will enable you to get a good overall view and practice of the software.

Like all Classroom in a Book products, its weeknesses are that it doesn't go in details and explain every options and it's not good as a reference book. It's more a book that you read once, like the title says: like a class that you follow...

You really have to think about this book as a "quick starter". As such, it is very good. It teaches you the basics and goes surprisingly far for a book so small.

Of course, since it's a quick project, it won't go very deep in each topic and you will need another book/reference to go further... but if you need to learn the basics quickly and can learn the rest from yourself by going throught the a CSS reference, than you shouldn't be disapointed.

As a reference, you can choose the reference from Sitepoint, which you can have free on their website (http://reference.sitepoint.com/css) or as a print copy (The Ultimate CSS Reference). You also have Eric Meyer's references (Big Book CSS: The Definitive Guide or pocket reference CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web).

It's a good quick intro book. If you just want to have a quick start to build a simple personnal web page, or if you want to use a gui tool like Dreamweaver and want to understand the basics of HTML, this could be a good book for you.

If not, you may be better to go with it's best selling grand brother HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

This serie (including this book) has one thing good: it teaches you the software through real examples that you may cross yourself.

But that's where it ends. This is a good start, but be prepared to dig further yourself, for it's often say "see the Photoshop help for more info on..."

Once you have read it, you may never come to it again (unless, like me, you use it to teach Photoshop...), for it's a really poor reference book and it often tells you to do something, without really telling you why you do it, or what are the other options...

For a book that tells you all and that can be a better reference, I would recommand more a book like Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide or a bigger brick: Photoshop CS3 Bible.

This book has it all! Ok, start with the thought that it's a Quick Reference, so it's not complete...

This book is first meant for those migrating from AS 2.0 to AS 3.0, but it can also be used as a quickstart on ActionScript 3.0 if you're new to AS.

It covers all the essential and is certainly quicker and lighter to read than other bricks like Essential ActionScript 3.0 or ActionScript 3.0 Bible...

It's divided in 4 sections, mainly an intro that tells all the basic, a section on how to use Flash CS4 with AS, a third excellent part in a cookbook style (Problem --> Solution --> Discussion) and a third specially on migrating from AS 2.0.

A must have!

I'm not particularly a fan of this serie, but I often use it to teach, since these are complete examples.

So, this book is far from a reference book and far from complete, but as a quick start to get a handle on ActionScript and create real world applications, it's really good at what it does. Unless you just want to scratch the surface of ActionScript, you'll want more than that, but it a good quick start.

For a more advanced book, see The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide: For Developers and Designers Using Flash CS4 Professional and for an even more advanced one, see Essential ActionScript 3.0

I really like this book and use it a lot for teaching and as a reference.

There are some bigger and most advanced book (Essential ActionScript and ActionScript Bible), but with this one, you'll master 70-80% of ActionScript in a fast and easy way. The other books are for people who needs more advanced features and who will work almost daily with ActionScript.