Free auctions and classifieds software for linux

Naughts and Crosses a simple tic-tac-toe game - with a twist.

This is a simple tic-tac-toe game, written in C++ for the console. Its a very simple affair, and only suited to the odd five minutes, but has a fully functional one-player mode (which I have tried to make neither too easy nor too hard) and offers the ability to modify the board size.

Clean And Close is a Firefox extension that replaces the Clean Up button in your Download Manager window with a Clean And Close button that does just that - cleans completed, canceled and failed downloads from the download list and then closes the window.

Auction Business Manager is a tool that helps you keep track of income and expenses for your online auctions, e.g. with eBay.
Auction Business Manager also color codes your listings so that you can easily see who you need to ship packages to and who still needs to pay.
There is a statistics page that tells you, by month, what your expenses were, what your income was, and how much profit you made, so its easy to see how well your business is growing.
Main features:
- Easy installation - just unzip, upload, install a single table into your MySQL database and youre ready to rock!
- Simple, intuitive interface - Auction Business Manager is structured so that its very easy to make changes to and update your listings.
- Ongoing Balance Sheet - Worried that you might be spending more than youre making? No problem, just keep track with Auction Business Manager, and compare how youre doing from month to month.
- Its Online - Once you install Auction Business Manager on your hosting account, you can access it from any computer.
- Password Protected - Auction Business Manager uses a simple login system to keep unwanted visitors and meddlers out.

AuctionGallery is a terminal script that creates picture galleries for the purpose of putting them into auctions like eBay, Yahoo Auctions, etc. It can also be used automatically generate HTML templates for auction description.
It is aimed at powersellers who have hundreds of products listed every day and need an efficient way of generating galleries and organizing pictures in a coherent directory structure.
I created AuctionGallery because I needed simple software to quickly create picture galleries for the purpose of putting them into auctions. There are many other similar programs available but none did the job.
Main features:
- Automatically organize picture galleries into an easy-to navigate directory structure.
- Upload pictures to an FTP site
- Resize images and create thumbnails
- Support for flexible templates
Installation:
Just extract the tar file into your home directory. Add the path to gallery executable to PATH.
export PATH=foobar:$PATH
Edit gallery.conf and create templates. 3 sample templates are included.
Usage:
Navigate to the directory where pictures are located. Type "gallery" in terminal. You can also specify a template to speed things up, like so: "gallery foobar". Hopefully gallery executable will be in your path. It will list available templates and their descriptions.
Type the name of template to use. Type the name of the folder that will contain the pictures. Give meaningfull names so that later the pictures will be easy to find. For example if the item being sold is a Rolex Date Just Watch, give this name: RolexDateJustWatch. Try not to put numbers at the end as it will look confusing.
If everything is OK, pictures will be copied to the images_root directory, renamed, resized, thumbnailed, uploaded to an FTP site and gallery.html will be created in the current directory. All pictures in current directory will be moved to a directory "backup".
Please keep in mind that this program is written in Bash script so it is error prone. I did extensive error checking but its impossible to check everything and if something goes wrong the program may spit out something bogus.
Enhancements:
- A new command-line option -n item name was added.
- A links directory containing useful symlinks was added.
- The delete_originals option was added.
- A bug in which files get overwritten and duplicated during rename was fixed.
- Error checking of configuration options was improved.
- All convert and rename work is done in a temporary directory to avoid possible conflicts.
- Permission problems in the install script were fixed.
- The user config file permissions were made chmod 600 to hide passwords.
- Config file searching when using the -c option was improved.
- The sample configuration file was revised.

Safe and SafeDesktop project are created so that a user need not remember all her login names and passwords.
What is Safe?
Nowadays, every person is forced to remember lots of sensitive data to interact with machines during daily life. For instance, automatic teller machines ask for numerical passwords and email accounts are protected by using loginnames and passwords. For many good reasons passwords should be difficult to guess and every password should be used for one account only. In reality, this makes it quite difficult for the average person to remember all the different passwords. Hence, people tend to choose easy to remember passwords and many persons re-use their passwords in such a way that the same password is used for many accounts. Even worse, it is quite common to write down passwords and stick the note to a screen frame. All these facilitations of remembrance lower the burden for hackers to get access to sensitive data and abuse computers.
The idea behind Safe is that a user must not remember all her loginnames and passwords. Instead, the user utilizes her cell phone to store sensitive data in an encrypted way. Only one root password is required to be remembered to get access to the data.
This concept works pretty well, because nowadays, cell phones are ubiquitous. Usually, cell phone owners carry the phones in their pocket regardless where they are going. So, running Safe on a cell phone means that passwords have no longer be to remembered and can be chosen as difficult as it can be. The only requirement is that the cell phone in question supports J2ME applications.
What is SafeDesktop?
SafeDesktop provides the same features as Safe does but it runs on desktop machines. Java is also used for the implementation of SafeDesktop. This allows SafeDesktop to be executed on almost all modern desktop operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Linux).
A synchronization mechanism is part of SafeDesktop to keep the data synchronized between Safe and SafeDesktop.
How does it work?
First, a MD5 hash of the root password is stored and compared with the users input, that is requested at applications startup. If the hash of the users input is equal with the stored hash, the user input is used as key to decrypt the data.
Second, a IDEA cipher is used in CBC mode (of operation) to store data in an encrypted way. The password that the user entered at startup, is used as a key for the IDEA cipher.
Version restrictions:
- Safe and SafeDesktop have their limits. The limits are inherent - they came from the IDEA cipher, the hardware, the operating system and all the other parts that are used as a blackbox.
- But remember, there are things you can do to push the limits: review the source code of Safe and SafeDesktop. Even more security relevant: Select a difficult to remember, long and random root password. With Safe and SafeDesktop you have only to remember one password, so, make it difficult for the opposer to get access to your sensitive data.
Enhancements:
- An IPv6 problem has been fixed (no exception will be thrown when the machine uses IPv6).
- Exception handling has been improved (error messages provide hints as to what went wrong).
- A minor bug has been fixed (mainly how and when Alerts are shown).

MyAuction watches auctions on internet bidding platforms. Configuration by interactive GUI menus (no script hacking required!)

Features different platforms:
* Ebay
* Allegro.pl

Localized Versions included:
* German
* UK English
* US English
* Polish
* Italian
* French

- Watch multiple auctions
- easy and nice interface
- Use different color schemes
- Use different background (including crystal-liquid)

I would be very happy if you leave comments about this karamba theme.

Configuration:

Right-click on theme, then choose "configure theme". There you can:
* change background
* change language/country setting
* change color scheme

Web Auction is a simple auction designed for organizations or individuals who want to hold an auction.
The project is unlike Ebay in the sense that only administrators can add products. Products can have pictures, price, minimum bids, bid increments, and more.
Enhancements:
- This release adds reverse auction mode so that the auction can be run in such a way that the lowest bidder wins.