Loretta’s Neighborhood

Coconut Queen (103 MB download)

Soak up the sun while building your very own paradise empire! As the island's much-awaited Coconut Queen, you must make the island of Lui Lui a popular tourist destination or risk its demise. With the help of brawny native gents, build and customize your tropical resort to earn your title as queen.

Hotel Dash - Suite Success (35 MB download)

When Quinn's new travel business hits a snag, she needs Flo's patented elbow grease to help renovate and run hotels all over DinerTown! As Flo, you will deliver guest's luggage, drop off room service and provide extra towels, blankets and anything else they may need to stay happy and leave big tips! Along the way you will use your tips to decorate and restore each hotel back to its original charm. Watch out for the mysterious mishaps and accidents that threaten your progress! Do you have what it takes to keep everyone happy, or will the mysterious shadow halt your success?

Engineering: Mystery of the Ancient Clock (15 MB download)

Travel to wondrous places as you help your professor search for the missing parts of the Ancient Chronograph by moving rows rather than pieces! Gather the clock parts you need to repair the Chronograph before time runs out. Beat mini-games designed to challenge your reaction times and earn awards for your brilliant play. Beautiful visuals and sounds, and a relaxing free play mode with no time limits, helps you unwind after you beat the game's toughest challenges!

LUXOR Adventures (145 MB download)

Travel to the edge of time and back! In this hidden-object adventure, follow John Swift and Jane Graham as they travel through the past to keep history intact. When they uncover the Osiris Orb just outside of LUXOR, they learn that the mythical Stairway to Heaven is more real than they had first believed. Recover a list of items misplaced in time to restore balance to the universe!

Delicious-Emilys Holiday Season (119 MB download)

Deck the halls with love and joy in Delicious: Emily's Holiday Season, a wonderful time management sequel to warm up your holidays! It's winter in Snuggford and Emily is preparing for her family's holiday party at a cozy little lodge. Soon, romance fills the air as two suitors vie for Emily's attention. Can Emily carefully balance her duties and build a relationship? Whom will she choose? Join Emily in this romantic new adventure through a winter wonderland! Meet her family and catch up with friends. Help and serve guests delicious holiday treats. Take part in jolly activities. Find out who the lucky guy will be! Brighten up your holidays with heartwarming fun!

First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!

The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.

TypePad Micro

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A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.

Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.

And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!

~ daisy

Hide & Secret 3: Pharaoh's Quest (71 MB download)

Continue your globetrotting adventure around the world to reunite the spirits of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh and Queen, separated for over 2000 years. Use your wits to track down and collect their priceless stolen artifacts and place them in the correct locations to appease the Pharaoh. Solve timeless riddles and perplexing puzzles as you journey deep into undiscovered Pyramids and Temples to solve hidden mysteries in a quest to unlock the Secrets of Eternity!

As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.

The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.

When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.

It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.

Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.

As always, thanks for your patience.

~daisy

Gardenscapes (94 MB download)

Create the perfect garden! Comb through a gorgeous mansion for hidden items and restore a once stunning garden to its former glory. Find over 1,000 cool items and search through 15 rooms to earn money and customize your very own garden! Become an outdoor decor pro in this cutting hidden object game!

Alabama Smith 2 (130 MB download)

Alabama Smith is back in an all-new time-twisting adventure involving powerful relics that could alter the destiny of mankind!  Join him as he hunts for the elusive Crystals of Fortune using the Amulet of Time.