How to use Nokia HERE Maps for Tizen Apps

Since late last year Nokia offers a Tizen SDK for its maps service HERE . Unfortunately there currently is no documentation available so you have to experiment a bit in order to use it. If you have developed bada Apps with NAVTEQ maps, you have a slight advantage, because the Tizen HERE SDK builds very heavily on it and probably is a direct descendant of it. Continue reading

2.2 Tizen SDK install Windows 8 64-bit

Since Tizen 2.0 there are problems, the Tizen SDK Windows 8 to install 64-bit correctly. In most cases the installer crashes after the extract the temporary files. Since the Tizen 2.2 Installer.exe you can not manually extract, however, as these are probably now output encrypted to start the necessary files yourself.

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Sync Android contacts without Google!

One of the most comfortable features of Android is the ability to synchronize their contacts through the Google account between multiple Android devices. So one has to its smartphones and tablets getting the same data available and save yourself the hassle of double maintain. The snag is that you have to entrust their data to a server by Google, over which one has no control. Continue reading