You must activate it via iTunes before you can do anything.

you should charge it more often and not let it run out of battery.

Skype drawns your battery in less than 10 hours when running in the background.

You cannot really *sync* photos from iPhone to somewhere else because Apple prevents 3rd party apps from accessing the image data base. An app can only access a photo selected manually by an user. You could use PicApp iPhone app to upload photos to Picasa manually. It lets you select several...