Addressbook and Filemaker sync

I don´t get it - Filemaker is an Apple company and they putting both out version after version and there is no synchronisation possible between these mostly used databases on the Mac! A major shortcoming in my eyes. There are at least some thirdparty helpers which give you at least the possibility to get one side to the other, but you have to repeat these steps over and over if you change something.
Christoph

A couple of things to explore:
http://econtact.slade.de/en/index.php (works well for me) and
http://tokerud.typepad.com/filemaker/2006/11/addressbookma.html

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