How to prolong battery life

How often should i calibrate the battery? does calibrating the battery more often help to prolong battery life? I usually leave airport on even if im not using the internet, so does that drain the battery life much faster than if I left it off? I use my laptop sometimes in class with airport on, but im not using the internet. And it went from 100% to about 85% in about 40 minutes. Text edit was the only application I had open. is this normal? Idk i might be wrong, but it just seems to me that my battery drains really fast. bluetooth is always off. at home even when its at 100% i leave the charger plugged in. is that affecting battery life?

How to calibrate:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284
Do that for a couple of month or whenever you think the battery starting to behave erratically.
Some more explanation :
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
And 15% for 40 minutes is about right even if you using it only for text edit, considering the screen is on most of the time.
Yes airport consume power too, if you not need that for a long time (in class for 1 hour), turn it off. But some user posted that the different is only couple minutes only.
And new battery technology won't let you over charge the battery, so it still safe to leave it plugged let say overnight.
Good Luck.

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