Using OpenCV with Python on your Mac OS X

You are likely to be sorry if you casually started installing Python and OpenCV like me as documented here. You might have read stuff online and tired installing python26 or python27 as well as numpy and opencv using macports hoping that your py scripts will conveniently import cv Of course then you must have gotten stuck while […]

Make Macports work behind proxy

I ended up struggling for months to get Macports to work and tried every installation method in http://www.macports.org but nothing worked. After drudging through numerous forums I finally discovered that sudo command “sanitizes” the shell environment and gets rid of the environment variables concerning proxy settings because of which commands like sudo port -d selfupdate […]