TechLila has published guides for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone users since September 2010. Most of our readers sit at a desktop with a job half done, so we write for someone who will act on the page within minutes: change a setting, pick an app, run a command or weigh a price. This policy explains how a TechLila article is chosen, sourced, checked and reviewed, and what we will not publish.
What we write about
Our beat is the computer or phone in front of you. That covers operating system guides, desktop and Mac apps, Android tools, comparisons between products a reader is choosing between, and statistics about the software companies and platforms people use every day. Topics earn a place when readers are searching for them and we can answer it from evidence. We do not give health, money or legal advice, and the older cryptocurrency explainers in our archive are history, not guidance.
Who writes and who reviews
Every article names its author at the top of the page. Most new articles are written by TechLila’s founder, Rajesh Namase; older ones keep the bylines of the writers who wrote them. Vedant Kumar, an engineer, reviews articles before they are published, and the reviewer’s name appears next to the author’s in the article header. An editor then reads the draft in WordPress and decides whether it is ready. Nothing publishes itself.
Sources we accept
We go to whoever made the thing. For how an app behaves, what it costs or what an update changed, the vendor’s help center, release notes and pricing page are the record. Hardware claims rest on the maker’s specification sheet, and open-source projects on their repository, changelog or official site. Statistics come from the company’s filing or investor material, the original data publisher, or the research body that did the measuring.
Some sources never make it into a TechLila article: download portals, spec-aggregator sites, roundups stitched together from other sites’ figures, paid market-research digests, rival publishers and AI-written digests of someone else’s work. Forum threads can lead us to a fix, and when one does, the article names the thread and checks the fix against the vendor’s documentation wherever that exists.
How facts are checked
Evidence comes before prose. Each fact starts as the source’s own wording, kept with its web address and the day we read it, and the draft can only cite what is in that file. Next, a script checks every number, date and quotation in the draft against those passages and redoes our arithmetic. Then a separate pass, run by an AI model, asks whether each passage supports its sentence as written, for the same product, region and period. When a sentence fails, we find a stronger source, shrink the claim to what the passage says, or delete it. The order of those checks, and what each one catches, is set out in our Fact-Check Policy.
Instructions and versions
Steps are only useful on the version they were written for, so each guide names the operating system or app version its steps apply to. Whenever we can, we run the steps on that version ourselves. Each one is also checked against the vendor’s official support, help and setup pages, whether or not we could run it. Menus move. When a vendor renames one or shifts a setting, the guide goes back into our update queue so the affected steps can be rechecked against the new release, on the new version wherever we can run it.
Comparisons and rankings
When we rank or compare products, the article states what it compared them on: price, platform support, features, the current version, or the kind of user each one suits. No verdict without its reason. We do not invent scores or test results.
Affiliate links and independence
Some articles contain affiliate links, which pay TechLila a commission when a reader buys. That commission never decides whether a product is included, where it ranks or what we say about it, and every recommendation has to stand on the evidence the article cites. Our disclaimer page explains how those links work.
Keeping older articles accurate
Our archive goes back to 2010. Old guides that still rank are still being followed, so we review articles on a schedule set by their type, and sooner when the software or the data behind them changes. Fixing a typo leaves the date alone; a new date means the advice or the figures moved. Articles that can’t be saved are retired.
Mistakes
If you spot an error, tell us through the contact page. Our Corrections Policy explains how we check a report and how the fix appears on the article.