Yesterday I visited the new wireless phone store located near 808 Grinds called Akamai Cellular. Owners Trent Corpus and Kim Cuevas Reyes just opened the business.

Inside, every wall is covered with all the accessories for iPhones and Androids, plus AirPods, iPads and soon the iWatch. They have a selection of phone cases, chargers (magnetic and wireless), rows of cables, wrist bands and a section with Apple Air Tags and the Apple Pencil.

They have an unlimited Talk, Text and Data plan for $50 a month or autopay for $45. It’s called H20 Wireless. It sure beats the $94 AT&T bill I pay every month.

They are open seven days a week, so stop by and support the local business people who work hard and live on the island. It’s better than driving to the other side of the island, spending $20 in gas and waiting in traffic backed up from Maalaea to Lahaina.

Many people complain that their MacBook battery doesn’t last very long and want to replace it. Well, instead of spending $150, there are a few ways to save your battery power throughout the day. One of the culprits of draining your battery is the brightness of your screen display. If you go to System Settings or System Preferences and click on Display, you can slide the bar to the left to adjust the brightness.

That will make a big difference in saving your battery throughout the day. Also in System Settings, scroll down to Keyboard and adjust the Keyboard Brightness. If you don’t need it, turn it all the way off.

If you’re not using Bluetooth or your Wi-Fi, turn it off temporarily. Another factor is having a lot of background programs running.

To see which ones are running, click on the keys “CONTROL OPTION ESCAPE.” A menu pops up showing all the programs running. You can click on any one, and then click on “FORCE QUIT” to end the program.

If you have an older MacBook, it will have a fan that turns on to cool the CPU — that uses battery power. If you place a book under each side of the MacBook to elevate it, then air can flow underneath and keep it running cooler. I’ve stressed this before that you never turn off your MacBook. Instead, put it to sleep when finished. So when you open it up and touch any key or tap on the track pad, it comes back to life faster than having it turned off and waiting for the startup screen to appear.

The impact of keeping it in Sleep Mode is that Apple can update your system with new features in the background. If you turn off your Mac at night, then Apple has to wait for you to turn it on in the morning to start the updates. That can slow you down while this is happening.