Like many others these days, I’m somewhat fanatical about the hit TV show Lost, and I thought it was pretty nice of ABC to offer the episodes for free on their website once they’ve already aired — all except for one little problem: the screen is a bit too small.

Well, that was until I realized that I could use the Universal Access zoom feature to transform that tiny little screen into a display that almost completely fills my 17″ monitor. Surprisingly, the image quality isn’t bad at all (at least compared to what I get with my rabbit-ears antenna), so try it out and save your eyes next time you decide to watch episodes online, catch the latest on YouTube, or need to view anything else that’s served up in a small screen.

And if you’re interested in reading a quick primer on how OS X’s display system makes this sort of thing possible, an article that I wrote a while back entitled What Is Quartz (or Why Can’t Windows Do That) touches on a few of these details and explains how they’re more or less freebies that resulted from Quartz being designed so darn well.