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Grant started following the problem "SMS going to or coming from Twitter are garbling up symbols!" in Twitter.

Grant replied on December 09, 2009 16:28 to the problem "Characters with accents are changed or dropped when tweets are sent via SMS." in Twitter:

I posted:
"Accidentally made an appointment at Ottawa's only French hospital. I cannot describe my medical history en français!"

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and then

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Grant started following the problem "Characters with accents are changed or dropped when tweets are sent via SMS." in Twitter.

Grant reported a problem in OC Transpo Website on September 12, 2009 19:57:

Missing printer-friendly format

Printer logo prints blank page instead of bus schedule.

Grant started following the problem "text format" in OC Transpo Website.

Grant marked one of [TTWP]DXChain's replies in Tapulous as useful. [TTWP]DXChain replied to the idea "Michael Jackson Tribute TapTap". Grant and 10 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Grant started following the idea "Michael Jackson Tribute TapTap" in Tapulous.

Grant started following the question "Can't import songs into TTR 2" in Tapulous.

Grant replied on June 06, 2009 00:24 to the problem "Absolutely unacceptable CPU usage during video calls on a Mac" in Skype:

Reported the issue with Jira, including log files. Hopefully that's useful!

Grant replied on June 03, 2009 12:34 to the problem "Absolutely unacceptable CPU usage during video calls on a Mac" in Skype:

Hmm. The CPU usage is so great that scrolling through a PDF or opening Firefox causes Skype to freeze up. I'll report it. Thanks!

Grant reported a problem in Skype on June 03, 2009 00:31:

Absolutely unacceptable CPU usage during video calls on a Mac

During video calls on my MacBook (OS X 1.5.6), CPU often hits 100 or higher for Skype. Happens using the beta or the most recent version, only during video calls. Generally, I have to put the person on hold and off again, and that fixes it for a few minutes.

Symptoms include extremely laggy video, frequent freezing and much worse video quality than anticipated. (I have high-speed internet, and my MacBook is 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of memory.)

Probably related but possibly not is the accompanying audio choppiness, which is sometimes fixed (I think) by plugging in and unplugging headphones.

Before you suggest it: I have already done a total wipe of Skype and reinstalled, including clearing cached files. Would you like a sample from Activity Monitor? What can I do to help solve this? It's really irritating.