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The bust is over. People have shifted home and onto their beloved computers for a livelihood.  How then, in the daze of all this re-organisation, does the worker now spend their time? What are the work-flows of the coming boom? This article outlines exact moments of time spent on the tasks in new economies. The searches, the sharing and the e-commerce. It’s all here – as the sands of the computer hour-glass fall away – creating ever new opportunities to use that precious commodity, time, in the brazen new economies of tomorrow.

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Sydney City Library Cable Network. Strength; Good  

• Starting your computer, then logging onto it’s Homepage, produces 55 seconds…
• Just 1 min and 10 secs will pass opening, “Google Docs,” for a new document…
• Now, 1 min and 14 secs transpires logging onto, “Triond”…
• Then you will gain 7 minutes and 28 secs sharing four Web sites, via email, inside, “Triond’s Content Sharing System”…
• The computer produces 34 secs when you search for your name in, “Google Search”…

  Small Office Home Office (SOHO) Standard Wireless Client. Strength; Reliable  

• Logging onto my, “User Account,” then onto the Internet (Internet Explorer 7.0), then straight into, “Hotmail.” (Windows Live) – 2 minutes and 37 secs…
• Checking my 7 unread emails and replying on-the-spot takes about 17 minutes and 18 secs…
• Going with my strongest Web site – EBay; logging in and viewing sales 55 secs…
• Selecting photos from my camera – 16 minutesand 52 secs…

Creating Little Luxuries  

• Focusing on my core product – 1 sec…
• Choosing Image for the Luxe Painting brings 2 minutes and 16 secs…
• Photoshopping Painting – 25 minutes and 50 secs…

  “Zazzle” Gallery Sales  

• Uploading Art to Zazzle.com – 4 minutes and 23 secs…
• Selling and Sharing the Canvas – 8 minutes and 27 secs…
• Checking the Zazzle Gallery – 2 minutes…

  Working My Triond Sites  

• 12 minutes sharing 3 Web sites to Reddit, StumbleUpon and Live
• Commenting on writers – 2 minutes and 45 secs
• Writing and proofing article – 24 minutes 54 secs.

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  Analysis

Computers seem to while away time leaving us in a seemingly timeless realm. By breaking each task into logical units an overall logic emerges for computing use.

• Writing takes up the most time with around half-an-hour per session to write, proof or publish work
• Image manipulation is next; this takes about twenty minutes to photo shop or re-size pictures
• Reading and commenting are the next most precious event – fifteen minutes
• Booting and logging onto machines – five minutes.

  Note: The times quoted here vary according to the strength of the network, the type of computer and it’s operating system. The times given are done of High-Speed Networks using generally the best computers.

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