Lost Your Reading Glasses? Try Double Tap To Zoom In Safari 5.1 [OS X Tips]

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People can spend a lot of time surfing the web in Safari and sometimes we get to a page that we cannot read. The reasons you cannot read the page might include having misplaced your reading glasses or perhaps you just want a better look at some fine print before buying something online then this tip is for you.

If you are viewing a web page and you want to zoom in on the content just place the mouse cursor over the page and double tap your trackpad with two fingers. The page will go from this:

to this:

If you repeat the double tap the web page displayed in Safari will return to its normal magnification.

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