Pinterest is a social photo sharing website in the form of a digital pinboard. It allows users to organize and store images on different boards. Small businesses are increasingly using Pinterest to drive traffic to their web sites.
Find out about tweets, retweets, hashtags and mentions and how to useTwitter for social networking and for your business.
What is OPL to Go?
OPL to Go is Oakville Public Library’s free smartphone app – the best way to access Oakville Public Library from your smartphone or tablet. You can log in, view your account, place and edit holds, locate materials and branches, and even use it as your library card!
OverDrive has provided a step-by-step of how to use OverDrive Media Console with Windows 8. Read the rest of this entry »
What is Freegal?
Freegal is a free downloadable music service with over 3 million songs from the Sony music catalogue (which includes over 10,000 record labels). Freegal allows every Oakville Public Library customer to download up to five songs per week. It is available on personal computers (Windows or Mac), Android mobile devices, and Apple mobile devices.
How do I get the Freegal app?
The Freegal app is available on the iTunes App Store as well as the Google Play store. The app is free.
The Kobo Arc, unlike other Kobos, is more of an android tablet than a basic eReader. Though you can access eBooks on both, the ways you access them are very different. These are the instructions on how to use Libraries on the Go with the Kobo Arc.
OverDrive eBooks may be downloaded directly onto a Sony Reader Wi-Fi. Be sure to have the Reader connected to a wireless network.
A software upgrade is now available so that Google Play and its 500,000+ Android apps may be accessible on the Kobo Vox. This includes the ability to easily install the free OverDrive Media Console app necessary to borrow library eBooks and audiobooks from Oakville Public Library’s Libraries on the Go service.
Oakville Public Library now has more eReaders available for you to borrow; choose from a Kobo or a Kindle and place your hold online. 30+ titles are already loaded on each device so there’s always something good to read while you give the device a test run. To see the titles loaded on the eReader, click on the eReader’s name e.g. Kobo EReader Bestsellers 3. Note that you are able to borrow eReaders for up to 14 days.
The OverDrive Media Console App for BlackBerry PlayBook is now available in BlackBerry App World. Be sure to install the PlayBook’s operating system update OS2.0; do this from the PlayBook’s Settings feature and select ‘Software Updates’ and then ‘Check for Updates’. Use the OverDrive Media Console App for BlackBerry Playbook to download eBooks and audiobooks from Oakville Public Library’s Libraries on the Go website for use on the BlackBerry PlayBook. BlackBerry smartphones are compatible with OverDrive using the OverDrive Media Console App for BlackBerry. Read the rest of this entry »
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