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Terminals: Swiss Army Knife For Remote Connections From Windows

Right on the heels of my Poderosa post comes another handy SSH++ connection tool: Terminals.

Rob Chartier has a good breakdown of some of the connection types Terminals supports and tools that it has built in (that is from version 1.6...the most current as of this post is 1.8), plus a ton of screen shots.

If you are a fan of the tree-view-on-the-left and tabbed-pane-on-the-right presentation style then this will be heaven for you. I just appreciate it since it has RDP, VNC, VMRC, SSH, HTTP/S + many more protocols (including Windows 2008 remote console access) all in one interface (with robust configuration options for each) and has integrated tools such as ping (with graphs), traceroute, whois and internal system information.

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All connection tabs can be made into full-screen entities and it even appears to support capture output to Flickr (cannot verify that until later). You can even save your connections as a group to re-engage in one fell swoop later.

Like Poderosa, Terminals is free and open source (download link for source). While it may be a tad unpolished, it is a solid addition to my Windows toolbox.