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You can see the intro to the article here or you can go to the Information Week site for the full article that gives all 17 of the reader-suggested managers.

Cygwin has been high on my list of tools for over 10 years. It’s a *free* Unix environment that runs inside of Windows. It’s not like VMware in that it exists alongside Windows — you don’t boot one or the other. Rather, it’s a set of DLLs and APIs that allows you to run Unix commands from the command line — a DOS box if you will. It has full implementations of X11, GNU Emacs, SSL, OpenSSH, cron … a list too long to go into here.

One of the thuings you can do with this package is run an SSH daemon (SSHD). Why? SSHD provides a secure path to your machine from other machines. No, it’s not a Windows GUI, it’s a Unix command-line UI but you can run X11 if you MUST have a GUI and the whole thing is secured by OpenSSH. With the addition of some of the fine tools from Sysinternals like PsTools you can monitor your event log and see who’s been trying to log in.

Tagtag.com has free ringtones for your mobile phone. Am I the only one that wants my phone to RING as opposed to play music? The ringing phone from The Matrix makes a good tone. Anyway, they’ve also got tools to access your email as well as a WAP directory.

Swatvalley.com also has free ringtones and converters.

Pop-up Killer Review is a good place to look for popup blockers and cookie managers of the proxy type and otherwise.

I stumbled across cotse.net a little while ago and am seriously considering subscribing. They’re an outgrowth of the cotse.com privacy site. For $5.95/mo. you get unlimited email aliases which you can turn on and off with 50MB of storage, POP3 and secure POP3, SMTP and secure SMTP, and both NNTP and web proxies. For a $25 setup fee they’ll provide the same for your own domain (you handle the registration). Why would I do this? I’m an email alias junkie. When I sign up for something at a site and they want an email address, I create one and give it to them. Many times I keep that alias around to read their newsletters and such but sometimes I get tired of the advertising or just can’t find out how to unsubscribe from their mailings so I need a way to disable the alias. Sure, I’ve got my own domains (tonys-links.com is one) so I can do what I like with email addresses but I like to keep tabs on my aliases and am willing to pay for it. I’ve been using Mailshell for a couple of years now for similar but less extensive services at about half the price.

Information about cotse.net’s services is available here with more detailed info here.

I’ll let you know what happens.

I kid you not, godchecker.com will give you the scoop on Norse, Greek, Roman, Native American, Incan, Mayan, Aztec, Chinese, African, Australian and Finnish gods .. OK, mythology, but they’re there. Ever wonder what Freya was really all about?

You can subscribe to US-CERT’s alerts via RSS by following this link and grabbing the appropriate URL.

No doubt you’ve heard about this “new vulnerability” that can “bring the Internet down”. The real scoop is in US-CERT’s TA04-111A. Well, first, it’s not a new vulnerability, it’s an exploit of an old one that was published back in 2001. Next, the chances of any of the major hubs NOT addressing this issue is almost nil.

So, what’s the deal? I dunno, a slow newsday and the hounds were looking for anything that’d move product, I guess. I’m not saying it’s an inconsequential flaw, just that it doesn’t foretell the end of the world or anything like that.

NetStumbler has been sitting at V0.33 for, like, a year and a half. Well, 0.4 is out along with a new MiniStumbler for WinCE/PocketPC. See the NetStumbler README and MiniStumbler README for details.

The Dropload.com site says:

“Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 48 hours, regardless if they have been picked up or not. Recipients can be anyone with an email address.”

Pretty neat. 50M filesize limitation and, of course, you shouldn’t use it for illicit purposes.