Jacob Burch and Lon Harris will host episode 16 of This Week in iPad on Thursday, July 22th^th, at 5:00 PM PT on the ThisWeekIn Network. The guest on this week’s show will be Jason Smith, the creator of Uzu.

About Uzu

Uzu is an iPad application which allows users to create an interactive fireworks show on their iPad. Here’s the official description, “Points of light will shoot across the screen and fly to your command, twirling in a vortex of color  and motion. Freeze and move Uzu in 3d space while contorting spirographic curves with your fingers. Uzu lets you quickly switch between 10 different modes of real-time animation by simply changing the number of touches you’re using.”

Sponsors

“Print Magic” Wellala is the first sponsor of This Week in iPad. The application allows users to print to any Wi-Fi connected printer directly from an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Users can copy and paste text into the application for printing and users can also print images from the iOS photo library directly. Print Magic and Print Magic HD are available from the App Store. Host Lon Harris said on This Week in iPad that the app is “incredibly fast” and “works like a dream.”

Gazelle is a service which will purchase your old or gadgets, video games, cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, PDAs, gaming consoles and cell phones. Simply visit Gazelle’s website, tell Gazelle what you have and the company will offer you a price and ship you a box to send in your gadgets and Gazelle will send you cash.

PressReader from NewspaperDirect is the only iPad/iPhone application that allows you to download and read your choice of over 1,500 newspapers and magazines from 90 countries in 47 languages – all with just one application! With PressReader, you can hold a digital edition of your favorite publication in your hands and read it from cover to cover, just the way the title was printed — with no compromises in quality, fidelity or content. For a limited time, you can download PressReader and your first 7 titles for free!

UStream is a service which provides real time streaming video over the internet. UStream is ThisWeekIn’s streaming partner.

The News

Apple will be launching the iPad in nine additional countries on Friday, including Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore.

Apple has published a 13 page response to a request for information about iOS privacy to two federal lawmakers.

Multi-touch technology may be further expanding outside of the iPad and iPhone realm at Apple with a track-pad device designed for the desktop.

Apple has released an update to iTunes to 9.2.1 and an updated version of iBooks which fixes a number of bugs in the software.

It was reported that Apple would charge iPad users to upgrade to iOS 4.0 when the software is release for the iPad later this fall, but the rumor turned out to be false.

Planet of the Apps

This week, the hosts will be reviewing note-taking apps. Send suggestions for apps to review to @lons and @jacobburch on twitter.

This article was written by Matthew Paulson of iPad Week.ly.