Staab Engineering will ship you a vacuum-sealed Texas BBQ brisket from La Barbecue.
http://labarbecue.com/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-barbecue-austin
http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/food/2013-04-26/la-barbecue-turns-ups-the-heat-with-secret-pit-technology/
About $- value, depending on where I have to ship it. I hope crelf doesn't win!!!
OK, after a month I can say I'm pretty happy with my choice. The developer regularly and officially handles feature requests (there's a change log) and I can say that almost all of the issues I mentioned in the previous reply have already been resolved and it now has some good features which Reader didn't have. If someone else needs an RSS reader I would certainly recommend it. Just make sure you go into the settings and configure it to your liking, because some of the defaults definitely didn't match what I like.
I've been down this road, too. Windows has a number of third party SSH tools (cygwin, TeraTerm, etc), but all of them are encapsulated in their own little universe and don't interact with other code well.
Tunnelling sounds like a good solution. Because I'm not that smart , I ended up bridging LV with Python, and using the paramiko package to handle the ssh connection.
Hopefully my preordered Leap will come in the mail today..stupid rural post office is behind as usual!
And there is a LabVIEW LEAP API! Now if only they would publish it...