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Apple has captured all four of Wired Magazine’s Rave Awards that it was nominated for, which include: Most Wired Design, Most Wired Extra, Most Wired Ad Spot, and Designer of the Year. The winners were selected by Wired readers.

Apple is planning to open retail stores at Tice’s Corner in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and at Westfarms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on October 27, according to emails that have been sent to Apple users near those areas.

Worldwide shipments of PCs fell nearly 12 percent in the third quarter, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest, with sales in the US declining 18.7 percent. Dell extended its lead as the sales leader, capturing 13.8 percent of the worldwide marketshare and 25 percent of the US market. Apple yesterday revealed that sales during its fiscal fourth quarter, which is roughly equivalent to the calender third quarter, fell 21 percent.

While its likely not worth taking with anything more than a grain of salt—as with all rumors—an article at The Register offers some new details on Motorola PowerPC 8500/G5, including benchmarks that show a 1.6GHz PowerPC G5 outpacing a 2GHz Pentium 4 by nearly double. An update on the production status of the chip is also provided. The Register has previously speculated that Power Mac G5 systems could be introduced at Macworld Expo San Francisco this January.

Casady & Greene has released Chaos Master 1.2.2, an update to their file-management utility. Version 1.2.2 fixes an issue that arises when using Wizard Mode or when having Chaos Master recommend files to remove in “Duplicate Files” or “Duplicate Applications” in the Advanced tab.