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Two intrepid users have found a simple way to mod their old iPhone docks to work with iPhone 3G: a rotary tool.

All it takes, apparently, is grinding away about a millimeter of the plastic where the back of the iPhone 3G rests against the dock. A rotary tool with a tapered grinding bit appears to work the best, as it avoids touching the dock connector.

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Unclutterer is one of my favorite blogs. They offer practical advice and tips on keeping your work, home and life tidy and clutter-free.

This week, they’ve posted an article on using the iPhone for increased productivity and clutter reduction. There are several great tips, including my favorite — photograph the bar codes of your membership cards (gym, Staples, etc.) and store them in an appropriately named album. Most scanners should have no trouble reading the bar codes (test this before ditching your cards, of course).

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IntoMobile has a few good tips on how to extend your iPhone’s battery life, and most of them involve the most obvious thing you can do to keep your iPhone running: cut down on any and all extra functions. They actually recommend to turn off 3G, but you don’t have to go that far — just by holding down the Home button, you can close any background applications sucking up juice. And by resetting your phone, you can do the same thing — clear out anything running that you’re not using.

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WordPress app went live on the App Store a few days ago. This free app, which works with WordPress.com blogs as well as any self hosted sites running version 2.5.1 or higher, let’s you post to your blog easily. As you can see in our gallery, the application is straightforward and pretty easy to use.

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Flying Mac released the FarFinder 1.1 with Spotlight and iSight support. FarFinder accessing your Mac’s files from anywhere easily (just like Mac OS X Leopard’s Back to My Mac feature). Also, all you needed thing is a web browser for it. With this software, you can access any file on any operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac) from your Finder menu and you can search with Spotlight. You don’t see your files with only list mode. You can download and upload your files, also you can Preview them all with FarFinder easily.

Another innovation comes with latest version which iSight feature. You can see who’s using your Mac or just keep an eye on what’s happening on it. All these process making with safe connection at that time. Also, this software includes a special interface for iPhone and iPod Touch. It gives you access to your Mac with your iPhone or iPod Touch absolutely anywhere.

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Evernote for iPhone (iTunes link) looks to fill one of the big remaining holes on the iPhone: virtual notes syncing. Basically, the iPhone app is a stripped down version of the Evernote client which allows you to create and access notes which are stored in the Evernote cloud. Once created these notes can be accessed on the web or through any Evernote client application (they’re available for Mac OS X, Windows and Windows Mobile).

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Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like IM, cellphones and the web. It has a social element as well, as it allows users to befriend and monitor each other’s messages or updates. So what you have here is a publishing tool that can be either public and private. It is also similar to an IRC channel although messages are displayed less rapidly. Some have called it a slower version of internet messengers.

Twitter allows users can be accessed using the iPhone todays. There are some ways to get your Twitter updates on your iPhone. Those are basically Email, Web-based Twitter Clients, SMS, Instant Messenger and Twitter Mobile friendly websites for now.

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If you’re a casual jailbreaker, or looking to simply unlock your iPhone, you probably want to wait for another week for the bugs to be ironed out of the system and the software to become more stable. The iPhone dev team have done a fabulous job as a first approach — especially under the huge pressure and time constraints they’ve been subjected to — but it’s still not “ready for Grandma”.

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The iPhone 3G activation saga is quite confusing. Most people think that Apple and AT&T will require iPhone activations on the spot, thereby cutting into a big part of the unlocked iPhone phenomenon. However, this AP report suggests that there will be a way for people to get unactivated iPhones, the only catch being AT&T will slap a penalty on you if you don’t activate your iPhone within 30 days. The amount of the penalty, or how AT&T will even know who you are since your iPhone wasn’t activated, is unclear.

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So like a gadzillion people have asked me: “What do I do with my old iPhone now that I’m upgrading to a spiffy new 3G unit?” I thought about doing a top ten list. I thought about clever and amusing ways to use an old iPhone. But seriously, it just comes down to this. So read my lips.

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