Tag Archives: MacOS

Link to a note from desktop

Apple does not want us to link from outside to a note although it makes sense to have a central notes management .

There is no documented, public URL scheme for Apple Notes. Apple has never listed one in developer documentation, and there is no deep link from iCloud.com or from non-Apple platforms.

But an undocumented mechanism exists and is reachable from outside the app. Just create a Shortcut Continue reading Link to a note from desktop

 

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Complex Email Search

Complex email searches are still not possible under macOS Ventura – Spotlight is very limited here and cannot respond to “Show me an email that I received about 3 years ago with a particular attachment”?

Using an email plugin this is however possible.

Screenshot Email Search

Houdah Spot (38€) may be life saving here, look for the free trial.

 

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python3 cv2 installation

Homebrew is struggling with the older python 2.7 version that is missing ssl support. Python 3.8 did not recognize cv2 but this finally worked

brew install python3
brew postinstall python3
pip3 install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
virtualenv env_name --python="python3"
/Users/wjst/env_name/bin/pip3 install opencv-python
/Users/wjst/env_name/bin/pip3 install pandas scipy matplotlib Pillow tqdm sklearn imageio
/Users/wjst/env_name/bin/python3 -c "import cv2"

then I could finally run the image forgery detection from Github.

cd /Users/wjst/Desktop/image-copy-move-detection-master
/Users/wjst/env_name/bin/python3
> from copy_move_detection import detect
> ...

 

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