LeaseyBites

As you know, Leasey contains a feature called LeaseyClips, allowing you to copy multiple text segments and paste them into a text edit area in any order of your choosing. However, Leasey version 9 also contains the ability to automatically append text to the windows clipboard for those people who would like to use it in this way. This means that you can copy or cut text segments from multiple sour...

Leasey makes it possible for you to have access to your Speech History without leaving your currently focused application. You can move back and forth through the history items, review individual items and copy any number of them to the Windows Clipboard.

Through Leasey, JAWS has the ability to automatically speak the content of the Outlook reading pane as you move through messages in a mail folder. This means that if the reading pane is enabled, as you move to a new message JAWS will speak the usual details such as the presence of attachments, author and subject, followed by the content of the reading pane. In most cases, the reading pane displays...

We continue working with a cloud source to backup and restore our JAWS settings, In other words, those not related to Leasey, such as preferred speech synthesiser, dictionary files and more.

You now know the subject of this LeaseyBite. It is about working with the cloud. If you think this does not apply to you as you only use Leasey on one machine, think again. Listen up, and you might learn something to your advantage.

We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at initial support for the Twitter web site and the Twitter app.

We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at how we can abbreviate the announcements from Windows Notifications and application alerts, together with outlining some smaller but equally important new Leasey features.

We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at support for Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to text documents.

We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at the changes to news and weather.

We begin our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking first at the changes to radio and podcasts.

The Leasey Start Menu serves two purposes. It allows you to access computing applications you may wish to frequently launch. But it also allows you to open common utilities in Windows it may be more difficult to get access to. One could assume that such a feature is designed for computer beginners. However, we already know that experienced users of JAWS are benefiting from it.

If you are fond of typing a folder path into the Windows Run, Open or Save As dialog boxes, you could find yourself entering something which is quite lengthy. If the path to a folder location is reasonably difficult to get to, and you use it regularly, it would be good if you could save yourself some time in order to save items there more quickly. A feature available in Leasey allows you to map fo...

Probably a number of you will have heard of WhatsApp. It lets users make video and voice calls, send text messages, share their status and more with just a wifi connection. JAWS Support for the older WhatsApp client was made available last summer. We now support the new app or its beta equivalent. The app for the WhatsApp platform which you can download from the microsoft store is relatively acces...

Mastodon is a social network which has become popular in recent months. One of its attractions is that you can express yourself more fully, as some of the server providers allow you to send messages comprising thousands of characters. after all, if you have to condense a message into a small number of characters, this can lead to misunderstanding and frustration. But one problem can occur, and thi...

It is more than possible that you would like to work in one application while referring to notes in another one or within a series of applications. You may be writing a report in Microsoft Word, but you've made notes relating to a client which are stored in a text file which would typically be opened up in Notepad or another text editor. To get to those notes, you may have to press alt with tab a...

Spotify gives you millions of songs at your fingertips. The artists you love, the latest hits, and new discoveries just for you. It allows you to stream songs over the internet and listen to them as if they were stored on your computer. Let us continue our journey to learn how to use Spotify to create and manage Playlists, share songs, listen to Song Radio and more.

Spotify gives you millions of songs at your fingertips. The artists you love, the latest hits, and new discoveries just for you. It allows you to stream songs over the internet and listen to them as if they were stored on your computer. Imagine being let loose in a music store with permission to play anything you want, old and new. You can play any song, any time! There are also hundreds of playli...

The LeaseyRadio player makes it possible for you to listen to radio stations from around the world, provided they are broadcast on the internet. Thousands of radio stations exist playing a wide variety of music covering many genres. Speech content is also very popular for news, sport and discussion of current affairs. Find out how to hear them in this LeaseyBite.

Many of us enjoy listening to audio content, either music, books, podcasts or something else. No matter what it is, you will want a good audio player through which to hear it. This LeaseyBite demonstrates the support Leasey gives to VLC Media Player.

WhatsApp is a popular, free, multi-platform messaging app that lets users make video and voice calls, send text messages, share their status, and more with just a Wi-Fi connection. Part of what makes this app appealing is that it works on various phone and computer operating systems, so you can continue your conversation anytime, anywhere. Find out how to use it with Leasey!

As you read a book, document, web page or even an Email, you may like to be reminded of the importance of specific text contained within it in the future. Maybe you are browsing through your Email inbox, and you want to set a little note to remind yourself why you kept a particular message. If you are reading all the files in your music library, you may wish to attach a note to some of them to rem...

Using the internet is one of the best things in life, there's so much you can do. But sometimes, you need a reminder of good strategies for navigating the site itself. After all, the web is a very unpredictable place to be. This LeaseyBite demonstrates a feature which will give you some help.

This tutorial discusses Leasey Custom Help which allows you to create notes to help you when working with computing applications or environments. We all need a reminder from time to time as to how to work with a program. Perhaps you may care to create a list of shortcut keys you can use for it. Maybe you need to note some reminders as to the best ways of navigating it; quick shortcuts and tricks t...

The LeaseyClock not only tells you the time! It contains very flexible stopwatch facilities as well as timer functions. It can also be set to play chimes at varying intervals which are controllable by you. Finally, you can even cause the minutes and seconds to be output to your Braille display regardless of the model of display you are using.

LeaseyTags is an intelligent application which allows you to manage files and folders within File Explorer. You can also tag messages in Microsoft Outlook for manipulation, described in this tutorial. For example, if you wanted to select files 1, 3 and 25 in a File Explorer list, perhaps for copying, cutting or deleting, this could be difficult. It can be done using the keyboard but there is the p...