Streaming CBC Radio in iTunes
Last week CBC radio’s streaming feed stopped working on my Mac, and it turns out they changed their streaming format and switched to the Abacast CDN. Their stream used to be in WMV format, but now they’re sending MP3. Unfortunately they haven’t updated their instructions for OS X on their stream page yet. Flip4Mac is no longer required, and iTunes can open the stream directly (yay!). Here’s how to set
Programming is Fun Again with Processing
Have you heard about Processing? I was introduced to it indirectly through the Arduino microcontroller board I picked up a few months ago, which uses a variant of Processing for its development environment. Processing is essentially a Java-like language oriented primarily toward programming in a visual context: i.e. making graphics. It might also be the most fun I’ve had programming anything since I wrote a Mandlebrot set generator in CBM Basic for my Commodore 64. The immediacy of seeing something happen graphically as you code is like getting a cookie every time you hit “compile”.
